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Korea (12.3%) accounted for the same proportion as Costa Rica, with only Chile (11.7%) and Mexico (7.4%) having a lower proportion than Korea. [36] The average public social welfare expenditure to GDP in 38 countries where the ratio of public social welfare expenditure to GDP was identified was 20.1%, and Korea spent 61.2% of the OECD average. [38]
By 1989 South Korea had universal health coverage. [3] Other social insurance programmes include Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance (IACI) (South Korea's first social insurance program, introduced in 1964), and Employment Insurance (EI) (introduced in 1995). [3] The recent trend in South Korea is towards increased welfare spending.
These tables are lists of social welfare spending as a percentage of GDP compiled by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ("OECD") into the OECD Social Expenditure Database which "includes reliable and internationally comparable statistics on public and mandatory and voluntary private social expenditure at programme level." [1]
In 2014 the LÉT workgroup published a proposal, which involved paying 50,000 HUF per month to every adult and 25,000 HUF to every child; 90% of the cost would have been covered by rearranging existing social welfare, the rest by a dedicated new tax. [76] The proposal received no significant political support.
The Social Service Personnel [1] (Korean: 사회복무요원, 社會服務要員) is a system of compulsory employment in South Korea. It is the country's largest type of transitional and alternative civilian service system.
OECD listed several factors among the reasons for poverty in Korea. First, public social spending in South Korea is low. Social spending by the government in South Korea was 7.6% of GDP in 2007, compared to the OECD average of 19%. [4] This can be explained by the Korean traditional reliance on family and the private sector to provide such ...
A 2018 Korea University degree paper conducted a study on how social welfare policies improve economic inequality. The income of the top 10% was about 6.6 times the income of the lowest 10% in 1990. As of 2016 this has increased to about 10 times.
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