• Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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• v.43 no.1
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• pp.31-57
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• 2012

The purpose of this study is to understand the concept of publicness in social services. Recently, it has been argued that publicness be one of the key elements of social services even under the current social service marketization. Although publicness has been discussed in different ways in various academic areas, there is no consensus of what publicness really means, especially in social services. Therefore, reviewing discussions on publicness, this study intends to discover commonly shared aspects of publicness, and ultimately to suggest meanings of publicness in social services. This study also attempts to discuss whether different types of social service producers require different types of publicness under the context of welfare mix and social service marketization. The publicness in social services is related to various aspects: the scope of service recipients, trust toward social services, appropriate composition of services, social integration, role of government, and public accountability. Also it is suggested that the specific meaning and contents of publicness can be used in different ways for each social service producer, such as public, nonprofit, or profit sector. The study has academic and practical implications. This study provides the basis for further empirical studies on publicness academically and for implementation of publicness in the field of social services practically.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.9
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• pp.628-637
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• 2020

Recently, discussions on strengthening publicness have emerged to solve social service problems. Its importance is also emerging, but there is not enough discussion about the significance and importance of publicness. Therefore, in this study, the concept of social service publicness, which was presented in previous studies, was categorized and examined, and the future tasks were sought by restructuring the concept of social service publicness. Social service publicness can be variously understood as the concept of organic union in terms of the publicness of the subject, the publicness of the process, and the publicness of the content. Therefore, it is necessary to discuss it from an overall and broader perspective than the existing concept of publicness. In addition, empirical verification and typological studies of publicness can be a useful way to understand the current publicness. Furthermore, social service publicness needs to materialize realistic meaning through a process of discourse rather than a simple conception. It is meaningful in that it attempts to define the elements of social service publicness from a new point of view and suggests future research directions in previous studies in the field of social welfare.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.67 no.3
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• pp.253-280
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• 2015

This study reconsiders the concept of publicness by raising a question about the problems which the recent marketization of social services in South Korea. The existing perspective on publicness, however, is insufficient to account for the entire Long-term care market because only public organizations have publicness. Accordingly, this study presents 'integrated publicness', particularly 'dimensional publicness' and 'normative publicness'. A disproportional stratified sampling procedure was used to consider ownership. A merged dataset combining surveys from 248 Long-term Care facilities and on-line resources was used and analyzed by multiple regression, negative binomial regression and multiple imputation analysis. The analysis results suggest as follows. First, ownership publicness appeared more effective in the overall. Second, the regulations on the government funding did not show effective, and the regulation on evaluation system showed the effect. Third, professionalization of normative publicness showed a negative effect on service structure and showed a positive effect on service process. Lastly, user of free services whose public accountability was identified to be effective on service structure and outcome. These findings suggest that not only existing ownership but also dimensional publicness and normative publicness showed an effect on service quality. In this respect, this is important as the performance produced by empirical models of integrated publicness, in this situation that the outcome of marketization is insignificant.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.477-482
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• 2020

Currently, suggesting directions for strengthening publicity of social services is thinking in the direction of each person's advantage from the stakeholder's perspective. The position of the service provider and the position of the user shows different opinions on the definition and evaluation of publicity of the city or province as the management entity. Therefore, this study combines opinions on publicity focusing on community service, derives consensus on the definition and evaluation of publicity, and evaluates different indicators or factors that cannot be quantified at the same time. The goal is to solve the problem of publicity by applying the Analytic Hierarchy Process(AHP) as a possible technique. In addition, in order to achieve the research objectives according to the designed frame, an empirical study was conducted by conducting a pairwise comparison questionnaire for experts and users. Through the AHP evaluation model" developed in this study, as a result of measuring the relative satisfaction of major factors, service utilization rate (0.470), facility management (0.210), and other project implementations (0.073) appeared in order. Here, the service utilization rate was evaluated as the most important.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.220-233
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• 2015

The purpose of this study is to increase the perception of publicness and service quality on nursing facility for the elderly.The care wokers are core human resources in elderly care work practices and their perception of their publicness are likely to on effect service quality. This survey was conducted 318 care workers in nursing facility for the elderly. Research method used multiple regression analysis. Result indicated that care worker's perception of publicness level and service quality is above the ordinarly. And care worker's perception of publicness had positive effect service quality.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.12
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• pp.257-272
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• 2015

The purpose of this study is to investigate practical measures to provide a better welfare services in public sector through analyzing differences according to socio-demographic characteristics about the quality service of public welfare that social welfare officials perceive personally. The questionnaire has been conducted among 401 social welfare officials with 5 factors: tangibles, reliability, responsiveness, empathy and assurances. With the results, the age was the most conspicuous difference in five factors of quality service in general. The quality of welfare service appears lower level as the official works close to community members. Additionally, the analysis shows that social welfare officials have relatively low perception about reliability, responsiveness and empathy. The official in charge of social welfare needs to have a neighborhood-centered value orientation, and be a social worker and official in the field of substantive welfare. Therefore, this study has a meaning to suggest some directions of social welfare transition and basic delivery system by identifying their understanding.

• 한국사회복지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.04a
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• pp.93-104
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• 2008

사회복지 분야는 정부가 개입해야 하는 대표적인 정책영역이나, 공공성을 강조하면서, 시장기능을 전혀 고려하지 않는 정부개입은 정부실패라는 왜곡을 발생시킨다. 사회복지 서비스는 공공재라기 보다는 가치재로서, 사유재 성격을 가지므로 정부와 시장역할에 대한 균형된 시각이 필요하다. 시장실패와 함께 정부실패라는 경제적 왜곡현상을 동시에 고려하면서, 정부와 시장의 최적역할분담이 이루어져야 한다. 보육정책의 방향은 공공성이 높으므로, 정부가 주도가 되어 모든 국민들에게 똑같은 보육서비스를 공급하는 것이다. 획일적인 보육서비스 질을 정부재원의 확대로서 높이려는 정책방향은 필연적으로 정부실패라는 왜곡을 발생시킨다. 현재 많은 전문가들이 지적하는 민간부문의 보육서비스 질이 낮은 근본원인은 시장규제에 있다. 즉 영리법인의 시장진입을 금지하고, 가격을 규제하고 있기 때문이다. 따라서 보육서비스 질을 높이기 위해서는 보육시장의 정부규제를 철폐해야 한다. 보육시장에 대한 규제 철폐없이 모든 국민들을 대상으로 한 보육재정의 확대는 재정의 낭비를 초래하게 된다. 보육정책의 바람직한 방향은 정부와 시장의 역할분담을 통해서이다. 보육서비스의 외부 불경제 효과가 높은 만큼, 시장에서 충족시키지 못하는 일정소득 이하 계층에 대한 보육서비스는 정부에서 무상으로 제공해야 한다. 그러나 일정소득 수준이상의 계층에게는 다양한 수요가 시장기능에 의해 해결될 수 있도록 해야 한다. 시장실패의 논리와 함께 정부실패라는 왜곡의 심각성을 인식하고, 정부와 시장기능에 대한 최적의 역할분담이 이루어져야 한다.

• 한국사회복지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.10a
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• pp.201-215
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• 2005

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.42 no.4
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• pp.181-201
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• 2011

The recent diversification of society surrounding libraries is influencing the services of libraries. This study suggested the directions of public library services from the aspect of the universal design based on the analysis of related systems and cases to provide all users with universal services in accord with the nature of public libraries amid rapidly changing social environment. This study suggests four directions: the "universal design" which is the keyword for pursuing universality of public library services; the pursuit of economic value of public library services based on the universal design; the universal design for the improvement of perception of public library services; change in policies and systems related to public library services through the application of the universal design.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.18 no.7
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• pp.21-29
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• 2020

This study aims to explore the characteristics of platform for social service delivery and the electronic voucher system as an instrument for the delivery. The paper discusses the concept and characteristics of platform and reviews the factors by which firms migrate to platform. Social service e-vouchers are an example of a government platform that pays e-vouchers to consumers and gives them the choice of services. Then it analyzes the case of platform establishment to deliver social services. The demand on welfare services has changed with demographic structure. The change in demand requires innovation in the social service delivery system and adoption of strategies to move to the platform. Factors that enabled the social service delivery platform to build both demand and supply sides include access to employment policies, industrial connection, workforce training, and requirements for social service eligibilities.