• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.349-355
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• 2023

This study attempted to examine the effect of Korean and Japanese college students' perception of welfare for the elderly, dementia perception, and dementia attitude on dementia policy. The main results are as follows. As a result of analyzing the impact of Korean-Japanese college students on their perception and attitude of dementia policy, it was found that Korean-Japanese college students' perception of welfare for the elderly and dementia attitude had a positive (+) effect on dementia policy perception. As a result, I would like to present the following implications. Korea and Japan have developed social insurance systems for the elderly in a low birth rate and aging society, and are developing and implementing support services suitable for the culture of both countries. In the perception of dementia policies of college students in Korea and Japan, the influence of long-term care insurance for the elderly in Korea and nursing care insurance in Japan has led to changes in the perception of dementia among college students. However, it has been shown that dementia awareness does not affect dementia policy awareness, indicating that college students lack dementia awareness. Dementia awareness can increase the demand for the development of various dementia-related services or dementia policies, but low dementia awareness can lead to misunderstanding or negative perceptions of dementia. This can also affect the perception of dementia policies, and services and policies such as social support, prevention, and treatment related to dementia may not be sufficiently developed. In order to compensate for these problems in the future, efforts should be made to improve awareness through the provision of various information such as the government and society to help improve and understand dementia awareness for college students.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.7
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• pp.295-305
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• 2012

This study analyzes actual conditions of private health insurance empirically by using the decision to join Korea Health Panel data. First, the study investigates how sociodemographic factors influence joining the private health insurance. Next, the relationship between the private health insurance membership and the frequency of medical service utilization is analyzed. The main results of these analyses can be summarized as follows: the socially vulnerable are less likely to join private health insurance relative to the middle and upper classes. The frequency of medical service utilization of private insurance members is relatively higher. This fact contains the possibility that the middle and upper classes are able to receive more medical services through private health insurance membership, while the socially vulnerable have difficulty with obtaining medical services in spite of much need. Therefore, policies are needed which manage the private health insurance more effectively and secure the publicity of health service socially.

• 한국사회정책
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.97-129
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• 2013

This study aims to investigate causes of the emergence of so-called 'family-care workers' in the Long-term Care Insurance system in Korea. The LTCI system introduced in 2008 financially support the utilization of formal care services for the eligible elderly with care needs by paying for services of their care workers. Interestingly, 38.4 percent of payments for the in-home services were claimed by family members registered as qualified long-term care workers in 2012. We interviewed ten family care workers in depth and analyzed the needs of the aged and their families to explain the emergence of family care workers. The emergence of family-care workers is an inevitable result of choice by family members who face a dual burden of living and caring; be the additional choice following discharge the duty to support the elderly; be the alternative choice to fulfill unaccepted needs for services. These results suggest the needs for a comprehensive public provision of both income and social service support for the aged and an introduction of financial support for family care complementing the formal care support in the LTCI in Korea.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.10 no.9
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• pp.229-236
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• 2019

This is an exploratory study examining factors associated with awareness of the National Long Term Care Insurance in Korea. The researchers also examined the differences in factors based on their age, between the middle-aged group(45-64 years of age) and the elderly group(65 years and older). The 6th wave of Korean Longitudinal Study of Ageing(KLoSA) was used for secondary data analysis. Results indicated that for the middle-aged, gender, volunteer participation, ADL, IADL, and depression were related to their awareness of the long term care insurance. However, for the elderly, social capital factors were significantly related to their awareness of the insurance. Age and depression were also significant factors associated with the awareness level of the long term care insurance among the elderly. Based on the findings, implications for social welfare policy are discussed.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.1-21
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• 2014

Personal information is a requisite for financial transactions as well as a core asset of financial companies. However, as a side effect of the information society, personal information infringements have emerged as significant social risks, causing realized loss to individuals and companies. This study analyzes results of financial and emotional loss in terms of consumer loss and also presents usefulness of insurance in order to minimize such actual damages as a means of risk transfer. In addition, this study investigates components and premium calculation principles of compensation insurance against personal information invasion and finally presents policies to activate these insurance product. As a method of risk management, insurance not only is a useful tool to guarantee consumer protection and companies' financial soundness simultaneously but also provides a basis of quantitative measurement of IT risks.

• 한국사회정책
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.163-198
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• 2018

This study analyzed the change of the Korean welfare regime during the conservative government. It is clear that the welfare expanded during the conservative government, but this expansion was the process of realizing the constraint of expansion that reduces future welfare expenditure in Korea. In addition, as the public welfare centered on social insurance expanded after 10 years of liberal government, the backward selectivity of the Korean welfare regime strengthened in the conservative administration. Expanding social insurance itself does not reinforce the backward selectivity of the Korean welfare regime. However, the industrial structure created by the export-led growth system has intensified the fragmentation of the labor market, and expanding social insurance designed based on regular workers under these conditions has forced the backward selectivity of the social security system. It is for this reason that the backward selectivity has been reinforced during the conservative government.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.91-109
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• 1994

본고(本稿)는 피보험자(被保險者)의 위험정도(危險程度)에 관하여 정보의 불균형이 존재하고 있는 보험시장에서 전체(全體) 시장참여자(市場參與者)의 효용(效用)과 기대이익(期待利益)을 증대시키기 위하여 어떠한 가격정책을 수립하여야 하는지를 분석(分析)하고, 이 분석을 토대로 현재 정부가 추진중인 가격자유화 추진계획방향을 평가하고 개선방향(改善方向)을 제시하고자 하였다. 본고(本稿)의 분석결과(分析結果)에 따르면 정보(情報)의 불균형하(不均衡下)에서 자유화 초기단계의 제한적인 가격자유화는 전체 보험이용자의 효용을 증대시키는 효과를 가져오나 자유화의 폭이 커질수록 사회전체적인 효용증대효과는 불명확해진다. 이 경우 일정범위에 대해서는 요율(料率)과 보장범위(保障範圍)를 위험에 따라 차별화하지 않는 단일(單一) 공동요율(共同料率)을 제시하는 계약(契約)을 주계약(主契約)으로 구매하게 하고, 보충계약(補充契約)인 특약부분(特約部分)에서 각 이용자가 위험정도에 따라 차별화된 가격으로 적절한 보장범위를 선택하게 하도록 정부가 유도하는 것이 바람직하다. 주계약과 보충계약으로 구성된 이러한 보조계약(補助契約)은 기존의 단일(單一) 공동요율(共同料率)에 의한 계약보다 파레토개념에서 우월한 계약으로 시장전체에 순효용증대(純效用增大)의 효과(效果)를 가져올 것이다. 또한 고지의무(告知義務)의 강화(强化), 위험분류(危險分類) 및 선택(選擇) 업무(業務)의 효율화(效率化) 등으로 보험시장내에서 정보의 불균형현상이 해소되고 나면 실질적(實質的)인 가격(價格)의 완전자유화(完全自由化)를 실시하여 파레토최적(最適)을 이루어야 할 것이다. 따라서 정부는 보험시장(保險市場)의 특성(特性)을 고려하여 주어진 조건에서 전체 시장참여자의 효용과 기대이익을 극대화하는 가격정책(價格政策)을 펴야 하며, 현재 추진중인 보험상품(保險商品) 가격자유화계획(價格自由化計劃)도 이런 관점에서 재조명되어야 할 것이다.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.693-706
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• 2018

It is very important to support the elderly with disability ageing in place. Assisting devices can help them to live independently in their community; however, they have to be used appropriately to meet care needs. This study develops an assisting device recommendation system for the beneficiaries of long-term care insurance that include algorithms to decide the most appropriate type of assisting device for beneficiaries. We used long-term care (LTC) insurance data for grade assessment including 8,084 beneficiaries from July 2015 to June 2016. In addition, we collected standard care plans for assisting devices, that power-assessors made, considering their performance and ability that could subsequently be matched with grade assessment data. We used a decision-tree model in data-mining to develop the model. Finally, we developed 15 algorithms for recommending assisting devices. The findings might be useful in evidence-based care planning for assisting devices and can contribute to enhancing independence and safety in LTC.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.167-174
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• 2018

Japanese state has continuously tried to adapt itself to the social demands coming from rapidly greying population. Japanese government introduced the new social insurance system of elderly care, i.e. Long term Care Insurance with epoch-making changes in the Japanese welfare system. The most important aspects of the new system can be summarised as follows: 1) social insurance system of obligatory entry with paying premiums and co-payment 2) emphasis on the customer choice, competition, flexibility, free-market, relaxation of the regulation. This characteristics brought unexpected results of the emergence of ethnicity-centred contents of welfare services. As a selling point in freemarket and as a countermeasures against expected ethnic disadvantages, the Korean ethnic organisations brought the ethnic elements resulting in the diversified Japanese welfare services.

• The Korean Society of Law and Medicine
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.203-242
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• 2019

Since 2006, local governments in Korea have been providing premiums for social insurance, such as the National Health Insurance System, for the health care of local residents. The purpose of this study is to analyze the content of self-governing legislation that defines these policies. The method of conducting the research was based on the articles of the ordinance related to the 'public health insurance premium' of the self-governing statutes published on the website of the National Law Information Center. As of May 2019, 201 municipalities have enacted ordinances to support public health insurance premiums. In the case of state local governments, 8 out of 17 were found, and in the case of basic local governments, 193 out of 226. The constitution of the ordinance consisted of purpose, time of enactment, type of social insurance premium, object of social insurance premium, amount of social insurance premium support, method and process of social insurance premium support, time of social insurance premium support. This study analyzed contents of these articles. Finally, this study presented issues that could be controversial from the policy and legal viewpoints and suggestions for improvement.