This study was designed to look at the appearance of the Youth welfare policy and Related laws in Korea. The present study reviewed ; 1) The ideology, concepts, and special features of the Youth welfare policy. 2) The concepts, issues and implications...
This study was designed to look at the appearance of the Youth welfare policy and Related laws in Korea. The present study reviewed ; 1) The ideology, concepts, and special features of the Youth welfare policy. 2) The concepts, issues and implications of the Related laws including the constitution, the Youth`s Charter, Youth basic Act, Act of Juvenile Sex Protection, Act of Juvenile Protection, Act of Youth welfare support. In case of Korea, Youth welfare policies have been divided into many departments and their programs have been established as needed. Therefore, this research was suggested several ways on the Related Acts and welfare policies for improvements of Youth welfare in Korea. First, policy department which takes charge of the service for developing new programs and adjusting each department is required. And for the professional youth policies, special members for the youth should be placed to policy department, local department and local administrative organization. Second, existing laws and policies should be improved to include the youth excluded from existing laws related to the youth and youth promotion laws should be revised or new laws should be enacted for the purpose of revealing the proper services of youth policy department. Third, A lot of youth facilities in existing schools and workplaces should be open to the youth in local community and an organization which plans and adjusts utilization of the special youth facilities is also required. Fourth, research and survey of desires, problems and views of the youth are needed for developing the youth policies, which should be based on the characteristics of the youth.