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Some Characteristics of Family Policy in Korea During Roh, Moo Hyun Government, 2003-2008 (<참여정부>의 가족정책 성격: 3개 법을 중심으로)

  • Kim, Mi-Sook
    • Korea journal of population studies
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.27-55
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    • 2008

  • This paper tries to introduce most recent trends of Korean family policies during Roh, Moo Hyun Government of March 2003-February 2008. Focusing on the gender perspectives, discussions are, for heuristic purposes, centered around three major family issues in S. Korea, one of the most dynamically changing societies in the world: 1) the abolishment of male-centered traditional Family Registry System('the hoju') and the launching of brand-new Family Record Book of five different versions for individual from January 2008; 2) the application of Framework Act On Healthy Homes, a first formal measure to step in various forms of family break-ups these days; and 3) the emergence of Multi-Cultural Family Protection Act, thanks to a massive volume of international marriage migrants from overseas. It can be said that all these family policies are the result of rapidly changing socio-demographic trends into an aging society since 1990s. These trends include late/no marriage with low birth rates, high divorce(and thus remarriage) rates, breakdown of male-breadwinner family model and increase of dual-income family, and a sudden increment of international marriage particularly in rural areas. All in all, overall trends of Korean family life these days that have been taking place so far would provide an excellent exemplary how to deal with an unprecedented societal challenges with the brand-new family policies.

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The Characteristics of Korean Family Law - A Comparison with EU-Countries in Regard to Regime Classification - (한국 가족법의 특수성 - EU 국가와의 비교를 통한 유형 구분 -)

  • Chung, Yun Tag
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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    • v.41 no.4
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    • pp.161-187
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    • 2010

  • This study begins with two research interests. Firstly, there seems to be a break of research in the field of family policy in Korea which exists especially in regard to family law. Family law was originally the core of state interventions in family life, but has been neglected because of the lack of literature with comparative research methods. This shortcoming needs to be addressed. Secondly, through inquiry into the definition of family or family policy with the lens of the law, the definition of family or family policy can be correctly extended. With these two interests combined, this research tries to derive an analytical tool - maintenance community - of the law and compare some important points of the family law of Korea with those of 16 EU-countries in terms of regime classification. The method used is, firstly, to describe the subjects of family law with a focus on partnering and parenting without subjective interpretation, and secondly, to classify the countries' family-law regimes with the criteria of privacy and autonomy using cluster analysis. The results show that the countries can be classified into three clusters: Nordic (Norway and Sweden), West-Northern (Denmark, France, England, Finland, and Belgium) and Middle South (Italy, Spain, Austria, Portugal, Netherlands, Greece, Ireland, Germany, and Korea). This result can be compared to a precedent research result which showed that 21 OECD countries can be classified in three clusters according to family policy. The number of the clusters is the same as this study, but some countries belong to other clusters; for example Denmark and Finland belong to the Nordic cluster according to family policy, while they belong to the West-Northern according to family law, and Austria, Germany, and Ireland belong to the Middle-South cluster according to family law, while they belong to the Continental according to family policy. From this result we can interpret Korean family law to be in the middle range according to both criteria of privacy and autonomy like other South-European countries including some Continental countries. We can make some theoretical suggestions. The fact that both family law and family policy regimes in countries can be classified into three clusters can be interpreted to mean that there exists parallelism between family law and family policy in a broad sense. But from the fact that some countries belong to different clusters according to family law and family policy, we can say that the family policy in a country is not always consistent with family law.

5월 여성가족부 발족, 보건복지업무 일부 이관

  • Korea Association of Social Workers
    • Social Workers
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    • no.4 s.36
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    • pp.4-13
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    • 2005

  • 2004년 12월 17일, 정부혁신위원회는 가족정책을 기존 보건복지부에서 여성부로 이관 할 계획이라고 밝혔는데, 지난 3월 2일 국회 본회의에서 이와 관련된 '정부 조직법'이 통과됨으로써 오는 5월부터 본격적으로 가동되게 된다. 이는 여성부가 여성가족부로 확대, 개편됨에 따라 앞으로 가족정책을 모두 총괄하는 기능을 갖는 다는 의미인데, 작년 사회복지제도가 격렬하게 반대의견을 내건 '건강가정기본법'과 '모.부자복지법이 이관된다. 이 같은 변화는 지난 2001년 여성의 권익증진, 차별개선 등 여성정책 시행을 위해 여성부가 출범하여 지난해 '영유아보육 업무'를 이관 받은 뒤 5년도 체 안되어 가족업무까지 맡겨져 여성부의 어깨를 한층 더 무겁게 하는 것이다. 정부혁신지방분권위는 작년 말 이 같은 계획을 발표하여 전통적 가족구조가 무너져 가족해체 현상이 크게 나타나며, 이에 대한 국가차원의 종합적인 예방정책의 1단계로 이같이 조정했다고 밝혔다. 그리고 이전부터 여성청소년가족부를 만들어 통합관리하자는 주장을 제기해 온 여성부도 이번 변화에 대해 굳은 의지를 보였다.

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