The purpose of this study is to suggest politic implications about the direction of disability welfare in Korea, estimating the total amount of disability welfare resources in Korea in 2004 and finding assignment amount classified by distribution subject, centralization degree classified by domain and centralization degree classified by domain depending on distribution subject.
The major findings of this study were as follow:
First, the total amount of disability welfare resources in 2004 is 2.95 trillion.
Second, in the case of assignment amount classified by distribution subject, the public sector holds most of the total amount of disability welfare resources with holding about 87.3% among the total amount of disability welfare resources and the three subjects, Social Insurance, the central government and the local government, hold about 75% among the total amount of disability welfare resources
Also, third, in the case of centralization degree classified by domain, over 90% among the total amount of disability welfare resources is centralized at the three domains, the domain of life support, institution and organization raising and convenience promotion. this result is the same as centralization degree classified by domain depending on distribution subject
Through this result, we can occupy politic implication as follow:
First, we must development resources from the private sectors to hold and increase welfare resources, prerequisite factor for progressive development of Disability Welfare.
Second, we must evaluate and reinvestigate about the used resources in the existing sectors to achieve normalization and social integration, basic ideology and goal of Disability Welfare.
Key word: Disability Welfare Resources, Distribution Subject, Centralization Domain