The purpose of this study is to identify the research trends on the Republic of Korea military
social welfare by analyzing the study subjects, research methods and research topics of the
literatures related to the research, and based on the research results, to look for the direction
of research and tasks that may need in the future.
For this purpose, we conducted the technical analysis and content analysis of the research
trends of a total of 185 articles published in a national master’s and doctoral dissertations and
domestic journals, set up under the theme of military social welfare from 2005 to 2015.
The study results are as follows; First, in general, a number of social welfare researches were
conducted since 2006 by the time and journal articles showed the highest percentage and the most
common articles were published in the Republic of Korea military social welfare. by the sources
of literature. Second, research subjects were mostly soldiers and professional solciers and literature
research also showed a relatively high rate. Third, quantitative research of dissertations and journals
bothshowed a high percentage in research methods. Fourth, the microscopic approach took a rather
large percentage in .in research topics. Finally, we analyzed the research topic into sub-topics
and offered suggestions for research directions and tasks of military social welfare.