The Social Welfare as an academic discipline has been introduced to the Korean society by the creation of the Christian Department of Social work at Ewha Women's University in 1947. From the 1980s, the Korean Social Welfare has two sub-disciplines, the Social Work Practice and the Social welfare Policy. They represent the discipline of the Social Welfare in Korea today. If the Social Welfare would be recognized as an independent discipline in social science, a unifying theory which would relate the two sub-disciplines is needed. Professor Kim Young-Il develops a concept of Korean social welfare by focusing on the Social Welfare Institution. Developing the Professor Kim's idea, this study proposes a Korean Welfare State Model, which would be based on the notion of Social (Welfare) Right. Further discussion on the identity of Korean Social Welfare would be necessary if we want to understand and establish the Korean Social Welfare as a discipline more clearly.