Our society have been going through various and wide range of problems
of the aged people owing to rapid economic growth, transition of industrial
structure, extended lifespan due to medical advances, and breakdown of big
family system. In such an awkward situation, the welfare policy for the aged
people have been conveying welfare services only in one-sided and vertical
ways by causing waste of time, manpower and money in the result of lacks
of lateral integration and arbitration and by passing through complicated
multi-level processes seeming not necessary.
The Governance may become an useful tool in effective realization of
welfare of the aged people. Because it can attract effect of public
cooperation through mutual effort among autonomous non-governmental
organizations that cannot be obtained when the government performs the
welfare policy alone. Hence, I intent to promote awareness about importance
of elderly citizen welfare, and analyze state and issues of the welfare policy
of Korea to contribute to implement efficient welfare policy for senior citizen
in the situation that public and private sectors mutually cooperate on even
terms.