• The Korean Society of Law and Medicine
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.3-24
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• 2019

This research examines the constitutional meaning of the right to health through reviewing the decisions of the Constitutional Court and proposed amendment of the Constitution issued by the President. This article further discusses the relationship between the right to a humane livelihood and the right to health. Health is a fundamental freedom and inalienable human right which is a prerequisite to accomplish individual's independent activity and realization of value. Thus, the government is obligated to protect and uphold the right. Article 36(3) of the Constitution delineates the government's duty to protect and fulfill the right to health. Through the interpretation of both Article 36(3) and Article 34 of the Constitution, I suggest that the right to health implies 'the right to social security for health'. The Constitutional Court has narrowly interpreted the scope of the right to a humane livelihood by defining the term as "minimum material living standards". However, it should be interpreted as 'the right to enjoy a healthy and cultural life for human dignity' and setting the level of protection is solely on the discretion of the legislative branch. Ultimately, the judicial review on the right to a humane livelihood connects with the issue of rational control for legislative discretion.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.617-622
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• 2001

컴퓨터 및 네트워크의 급속한 성장은 정보 사회로의 발전을 이행해 왔으며, 수많은 정보들이 네트워크를 통해 공유 및 교환되고 있다. 이들은 공개된 네트워크를 전재로 수행되므로, 다양한 형태의 공격으로부터 노출되어 있다. 이를 공격에 대응하고 나아가 사용자 및 메시지 인증을 수행키 위해 각광을 받고 있는 방법 중에 하나로서 디지털 서명을 들 수 있다. 그러나 일반 디지털 서명 방식은 누구나 서명 확인이 가능하므로 서명자의 익명성과 비밀성을 보장해야 하는 전자 투표, 전자 회의 및 전자 입찰 등과 같은 응용 분야에 적용할 경우에는 문제점을 드러내고 있다. 따라서 이들 응용 분야들은 기본적으로 서명자의 신원을 보장하여야 하며, 필요할 경우 이를 확인할 수 있어야 한다. 현재 이와 관련하여 부인 방지 서명 방식과 이를 개선한 수신자 지정 서명 방식이 제안되어 있다. 그러나 이 방식들은 서명자의 익명성이 수신자에게 의존하기 때문에 수신자에 의해 신원이 노출될 수 있었다. 동시에 이들 방식은 메시지 부가형 서명에 기초하므로 전송되는 서명 정보상의 메시지가 제 3자에게 노출되는 결과를 초래한다. 본 고에서는 서명자의 익명성을 보장하면서, 오직 수신자만이 서명자의 신분을 확인할 수 있는 Crypto-Cert 디지털 서명 방식에 대해 고찰한다. 특히 본 방식에서는 필요할 경우 서명자의 신원을 확인할 수 있으며, 전송 메시지에 대해 기밀성을 확보하고 있으므로 다양한 응용 분야에 적용가능하다.

• 한국사회정책
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.113-150
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• 2017

This study analyzes how workers become impoverished and have their jobs less stabilized after they suffer from non-job-related sickness. Given that South Korea lacks sickness benefits, which most of OECD member states legislate and implement except US and Switzerland, this study examines its impact on laborers' job stability and povertization in Korea. The researchers have conducted in-depth interviews with nine former or present laborers who have the experiences and four experts on the issue in July-September, 2017 for the qualitative analysis. It is found that laborers, after becoming aware of their sickness, at first endure their pain without informing their employers not to lose their jobs. The attititude is observed especially among non-standard laborers, because sickness more often leads to job loss for them than for standard laborers. After workers have to leave their jobs due to their sickness in the end, they have no choice but to keep working in less stable jobs to compensate for income losses. They become gradually impoverished with their social capital like family bond declining. We observe laborers who are eligible for industrial accident insurance compensation could not benefit from the system because some employers refrain from the legal reporting duty. Due to this illegal practices, some industrial accident victims unduly lose their jobs due to "non-job-related sickness". Second, some employers report to the authority that their sick laborers have left their jobs 'voluntarily' even when they have quitted it without their volition, in which case the newly unemployed are not eligible for unemployment benefits. Large holes in Korea's safety nets for those suffering from multiple risks of sickness and unemployment.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.35
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• pp.179-203
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• 1998

Since the end of 1997, the Korean economy has been in deep recession; the unemployment rate has rocketed to 6.7% and the economic growth rate has dropped to -3.8% in the first quarter of 1998. Facing with this mass unemployment, the Korean Government launched comprehensive countermeasures against mass unemployment.. However, these have been in severe criticism from the outset on account of ineffectiveness and impracticability. It is in this regard that this paper purports to design a socially acceptable and financially feasible social safety net by reforming the Livelihood Aid Programme. For this purpose, chapter 3 defines the concept of social safety net, and chapter 4 reviews the social safety net programmes sponsored by World Bank and IMF in the Third World countries and Eastern European countries. Chapter 5 proposes the Three Step Approach in designing the social safety net in Korea.

• Journal of Teachers' Pension
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• v.3
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• pp.161-205
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• 2018

최근 글로벌화의 시대의 도래로 인하여 과거와는 달리 사람들의 국제적 이동이 빈번하게 발생하고 있다. 과거보다 잦은 국제 인구이동으로 인하여 각 국가 간 조세협약이 매우 중요해졌으며, 이제는 과세측면도 양국가간의 조세협약에 따라 과세를 하여야 한다. 본 연구는 이러한 상황 하에서 연금수령 시 국가 간 조세측면을 고려하였을 때 과세형평의 문제점을 살펴보고 이에 대한 개선방안을 제시하고자 한다. 과거에 비하여 최근의 연금세제 또한 많은 변화를 가져오고 있어 이제는 한 국가 내에서 만의 연금세제를 고려할 것이 아니라 글로벌화 시대에 부응하는 연금세제로의 변화가 필요하다. 이러한 주된 이유로는 국제이동 인력의 증가로 거주지국 과세원칙과 원천지국 과세원칙의 혼용뿐만 아니라 전세계소득(world-wide income)에 대하여 과세가 되므로 국제적인 이중과세의 위험에도 직면하게 되기 때문이다. 본 연구는 이러한 상황을 감안하여 최근 급증하고 있는 해외 이민지들에 대한 국제적 연금조세 측면을 살펴보고자 하였다. 해외에 거주하는 사학연금 가입자에게 발생하는 과세상의 문제점을 구체적으로 살펴보고 이에 대한 개선책을 살펴보고자 하였다. 해외거주 연금수령자는 국내에서 지급하는 연금에 대하여도 전세계소득으로 해외 세무당국에 보고를 하도록 하고 있는데, 국민연금은 각 국 간의 사회보장협약의 체결로 인하여 과세를 하지 않는 반면, 특수직역연금 수령에 대하여는 거주지국의 전세계소득에 포함되어 국외 거주지국 과세대상에 포함되는 문제점이 있다. 특히 캐나다에서 연금을 수령하는 경우에는 더욱 확연한 차이가 나타나게 된다. 본 연구에서는 다음과 같이 주장하고자 한다. 첫째, 한국·캐나다 조세협약 제18조의 수정을 통해 현행 사학연금 수급자의 연금소득에 대하여 비과세할 필요가 있다. 사회보장법률에 따라 지급하는 연금에 대하여 비과세하는 현행 문구를 한국의 공적연금으로부터 지급하는 연금으로 지급하는 급부로 수정할 필요가 있다. 둘째로 사회보장법률에 의해 지급하는 연금을 별도로 언급할 필요가 있다. 이를 통해 국민연금 가입자와 특수직역연금 가입자 간의 과세 형평성을 달성할 필요가 있다. 본 연구는 기존연구에서 간과되었던 연금세제의 국제적인 측면을 중심으로 국제적 인력의 이동에 따른 연금세제의 변화를 살펴보고자 하였다. 특히 최근에 우리나라 사람들이 가장 많이 이민을 가고 있는 캐나다를 중심으로 연금세제 측면을 살펴보고자 하였다는 측면에서 연구의 의의가 있다고 할 수 있다. 본 연구에서 제시된 정책적인 제안은 과세당국과 해외 연금수급자에게 편익을 제공할 것으로 본다.

• The Journal of Korean Philosophical History
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• no.57
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• pp.91-125
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• 2018

This study aims at attempting to make a new interpretation of Mencius from the point of social welfare. The thoughts of social welfare, found from Mencius, are temporal and humanistic and near to those in nowadays. Social welfare began under the name of philanthropic work, relief work, charitable work or social work from the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century on. Welfare means the whole social activities such as satisfying the fundamental desires of the social members, ensuring the conditions of their lives, and ultimately achieving social integration and stability. It means the conditions of their lives and wellbeing. Wellbeing means the minimal physical desires and psychological stability. The realization of the economic system through concept of steady livelihood and steady mind, tax system and well-field system, proposed by Mencius, can be ensured by the whole social activities such as ensuring the stable lives of the social members, enriching and satisfying their happiness and ultimately achieving social integration and stability. The thoughts of Mencius include people-as-root idea, which regards people as most important and tries to solve the instability and inequality that are the structural vulnerabilities in modern capitalist society. His concept of Way of the king means promoting people's sense of happiness through education of morality, based upon the people-as-root idea and filial and fraternal responsibilities. The main ideas of social welfare include living like a human being, ensuring minimal physical and psychological stabilities through social welfare system and welfare policy, enriching human dignity and freedom and enhancing the quality of lives. The thoughts of Mencius include all the above ideas. In particular, he desired to establish ethically and morally stable society by economically implementing the well-field system in Zhou dynasty, based upon politically benevolent governance of the politicians. That society was the people-as-root society, the realization of which was the ideal society Mencius desired to establish, and the goal of his thoughts on social welfare. This study, among the thoughts of Mencius, investigated his ideas on social welfare and the practical ethics for applying them to real society. In addition, to understand his ideas on social welfare, not only the social and economic backgrounds and conditions but also the political ideas at that time were also investigated. This will provide the opportunity to make more in-depth research of the elements of social welfare intrinsically contained in his thoughts.

• Korea journal of population studies
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.149-182
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• 2001

Due to the sustained increase in lifts expectancy, the number and proportion of the aged population has substantially increased, the proportion of the total population aged 65 and over was 7.1% in 2000 and 14.3% in 2022. But All public pension schemes in Korea, including the National Pension scheme, civil servants pension scheme, private school teachers pension scheme and the military pension scheme, are facing valving degree of financial problems at present because of their weak and unstable financial bases. with the result that some of them have recorded deficits for some time and the others are expected to run deficits in the near future. This crisis in financial sustainability in public pension schemes is attributable to the structural weakness of the schemes which can be characterized as high benefits, low contribution. Therefore, this article focuses on alternative of public pension schemes reform in Korea. The results is as follows. First, a basic pension is proposed to be newly established and the earnings related portion of National Pension Scheme will be as national pension. Secondly, the Basic Pension is a universal basic pension covering all nationals over 18 years and older, thereby achieving \"one pension for everybody\" Thirdly, National Pension will be operated as an earnings related pension covering only those participants with assessed income. Fourth1y, the current participants of public occupational pensions will also join the Basic Pension as well as the public occupational pensions whose scope of works will be reduced. And finally, The conversion of Retirement Allocation Scheme into a corporate pension should be left to the discretion of the company concerned.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.179-182
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• 2007

최근 우리나라의 인터넷 이용자수는 급속히 증가하고 있다. 그러나 인터넷을 이용하는 환경은 매우 다양하여 환경에 구애받지 않고 인터넷을 이용할 수 있는 데에는 한계가 있다. 이러한 점에서 볼 때, 누구나 환경에 구애받지 않고 정보에 접근할 수 있도록 보장하는 것은 매우 중요하다. 이에 본 연구에서는 웹 접근성에 주목하여 국내외의 웹 접근성 동향을 살펴보고 웹 접근성을 보장하기 위한 법 제도와 웹 접근성 실태를 소개하였다. 그리고 우리나라의 웹 접근성 지침을 근거로 종합전문요양기관에 대한 웹 접근성 실태를 조사하였다. 조사 결과 웹 접근성을 제대로 준수한 의료기관은 거의 없었으며, 향후 웹 접근성 확보를 위하여 인식의 제고, 지속적인 교육 및 홍보, 법 제도적 보완 등을 제언하였다.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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• v.48 no.3
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• pp.209-232
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• 2017

This study proposes supplemental security income programs for the elderly to reduce the serious elderly poverty in Korea. The experiences of the supplemental security income programs for the elderly among the developed countries were investigated. Based on this, the Korean supplemental security income models were proposed, and the effects of the programs on the poverty, inequality, and finance were analysed. The results suggest the following implications. First, the supplemental security income programs cover a sizable portion of the elderly in Korea, and reduce substantially the poverty and inequality problems among the elderly. Second, the supplemental security income programs are efficient compared to the increase of the basic pension. Third, the effects were varied among the combinations of the basic pension models and the supplemental security income models. Therefore Korea needs to introduce an adequate policy mix consisting of basic income and supplemental security income programs so as to construct solid basic income security systems for the elderly.

• The Southeast Asian review
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.173-218
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• 2018

This study focuses on the healthcare sector in Vietnam which is promoting universal health insurance for the achievement of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) under Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The purpose of this study is to examine the characteristics of the reform process of the health care system and the law on health insurance through the historical and cultural contexts and its implications from the perspective of development. Based on the three dimensions of UHC - extension of protection for population, provision of various medical services, and financial protection, the current status of the Vietnam healthcare sector is summarized respectively as follows. First, according to the revised Health Insurance law which came into effect in 2015, the mandatory health insurance premiums are calculated based on household units. Second, there is a medical network that can provide preventive and healthcare services centered on primary health care facilities, for example commune health stations (trạm y $t{\hat{e}}$ $X{\tilde{a}}$). Third, out-of-pocket expenditure is still a large proportion although public spending has increased and private spending has decreased since the enforcement of the health insurance law and various schemes. Vietnam is currently striving towards a universal health care system. The development of institutions and systems should be designed in a way that is appropriate for the members of the society rather than efficiency. This article findings shed light on the role of social values, family culture, and informal institutions.