POLICY FOR PERSON WITH DISABILITIES IN SOUTH KOREA : CHALLENGES FROM WELFARE TO EMPOWERMENT

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to study policy for people with disabilities through development of policy from welfare to development. To study the concept help them to help themselves by government through welfare policy. The finding of this study Korea’s style of welfare group. Indeed, before 1997 Korea’s style of welfare orientalism was relatively successful and reflected the public’s approach to life’s problems. But it broke down during the financial crisis in 1997, the private family efforts and family supports were not strong enough to inoculate members against the ‘social disease’ of economic recession. The main of Confucian is strong family relationships, social harmony and hard work form a positive set of cultural to design social supports. The Government also try to support but without strong social support for family welfare policies, it is also impossible to take advantage of welfare orientalism. Nowadays the main of government policy in Korea emphasises an approach to public support described as ‘productive welfare’. Productive welfare is based on an integrated balance of welfare and economic growth, sustainable over the long run by a guaranteed living standards and opportunities for work. Productive welfare is similar to ‘welfare to work’, ‘workfare’, and ‘work first’ approaches in the industrialised countries which is strategy for Korea that relies heavily on social investment. The Empowerment approach is designed to enhance the capacity of people to help themselves in a good standard of living by themselves.