• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.11-23
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• 2013

Adult guardianship system is about to launch in July 2013 in South Korea. For its successful first step, this study examined social awareness on the adult guardianship system and compared the awareness of parents and the awareness of service providers in the handicapped adult guardianship program to draw political implications on how to improve the system. As a result, this study found that people had higher awareness on adult guardianship (78.9%) but their understanding was lower (35.2%). Secondly, prospected guardians were found to have stronger demand on hospital use and financial management than on their asset management. About 63.3% of them showed an intention to use the system in the future. Lastly, both parent group and service provider group were found to have awareness at a similar level to each other on civilian guardian types, cost, who to bear coat and how much, and details of the program.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.1-10
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• 2013

The adult guardianship system takes effect from July 2013, to protect adults who need protection due to insufficient ability to judge, and help them lead a normal life. It is very important to identify the problems and solutions of the country's through the analysis of Japan that already performs the adult guardianship system, through which there is a need to prepare basis to accomplish the optimal system in advance. It is essential to secure the quality guardians above all, for the successful settlement of the adult guardianship system; the importance of citizen guardians is ever increasing as especially the 'socialization' of the adult guardianship system is supported recently. Therefore, in this study, the trends in the types of the guardians were examined by analyzing the adult guardianship incidents of the Supreme Court of Japan; and the ways to activate the system focused on the citizen guardians.