scholarly journals Supporting Low-income Cancer Patients: Recommendations for the Public Financial Aid Program in the Republic of Korea

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 1074-1083 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hye Sook Min ◽  
Hyung Kook Yang ◽  
Keeho Park
Keyword(s):  
Financial Aid ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Republic Of Korea ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Republic

scholarly journals COVID-19 Pandemic, Transparency, and “Polidemic” in the Republic of Korea

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-224
Author(s):  
Cheol Kang ◽  
Ilhak Lee
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Republic Of Korea ◽  
Global Media ◽  
The Public ◽  
Rational Debate ◽  
Policy Measures ◽  
The Republic ◽  
New Perspective

AbstractThis article examines the development of the Republic of Korea’s strategy to prevent the spread of COVID-19 with particular focus on ethical issues and the problem of politicization of public communication. Using prominent examples of stakeholders who have acted and expressed themselves in highly contradictory ways on the topic of the pandemic, we provide an analysis of how the public health policy discourse has entered into the realm of politicization and elaborate on the danger that this phenomenon poses in terms of rational debate and appropriate policy measures geared toward the public’s safety. Considering the role that the Republic of Korea have had in global media coverage of quarantine policies and epidemic prevention, we believe that our study makes a significant contribution to the literature because it provides a new perspective and insights into the forces at work within and around a prevention strategy that has both been lauded and seen as highly controversial.

scholarly journals TABUNGAN PERUMAHAN RAKYAT (TAPERA) DAN PENERAPANNYA DI DKI JAKARTA

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 321
Author(s):  
Henriko Ganesha Putra ◽  
Erwin Fahmi ◽  
Kemal Taruc
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Provincial Government ◽  
Housing Finance ◽  
Retirement Savings ◽  
Important Lesson ◽  
The Public ◽  
Modeling Analysis ◽  
The Republic

Occupancy is a basic need of every human being. As mandated by the 1945 Constitution, the State guarantees the fulfillment of citizens' needs for decent and affordable dwellings in the framework of developing Indonesian people who are wholly, self-conscious, independent and productive. The Public Housing Savings (Tapera) in accordance with Law of the Republic of Indonesia number 4 of 2016, is a long-term fund storage program that is used for housing finance, especially for Low-Income Communities (MBR). BAPERTARUM-PNS is an important lesson on how the goals of the housing savings are not utilized as retirement savings by most participants. The problem with this study is whether Tapera can be a solution for MBR in reaching funding for housing or repeating the failure of the BAPERTARUM-PNS program. Data collection from the Central Government, BP Tapera, and the Provincial Government of DKI Jakarta will be analyzed in the form of modeling of potential national and regional participation in and utilization of Tapera in DKI Jakarta Province. The results of the modeling analysis indicate a gap between Tapera's policies and people's expectations of a housing finance affordability solution for the MBR. AbstrakHunian merupakan kebutuhan dasar setiap manusia. Sebagaimana amanat UUD 1945, Negara menjamin pemenuhan kebutuhan warga negara atas tempat tinggal yang layak dan terjangkau dalam rangka membangun manusia Indonesia seutuhnya, berjati diri, mandiri, dan produktif. Tabungan Perumahan Rakyat (Tapera) sesuai Undang-Undang Republik Indonesia nomor 4 tahun 2016, merupakan program penyimpanan dana jangka panjang yang dimanfaatkan untuk pembiayaan perumahan, terutama bagi Masyarakat Berpenghasilan Rendah (MBR). BAPERTARUM-PNS menjadi pelajaran penting bagaimana ketidakberhasilan tujuan dari tabungan perumahan yang dimanfaatkan sebagai tabungan pensiun oleh sebagian besar peserta. Permasalahan dari studi ini adalah apakah Tapera dapat menjadi solusi bagi MBR dalam menjangkau pembiayaan untuk memperoleh hunian atau mengulangi ketidakberhasilan program BAPERTARUM-PNS. Pengumpulan data dari Pemerintah Pusat, BP Tapera, dan Pemerintah Provinsi DKI Jakarta akan dianalisis dalam bentuk Pemodelan potensi kepesertaan dan dana pemanfaatan Tapera secara nasional maupun regional di Provinsi DKI Jakarta. Hasil dari analisis pemodelan tersebut mengindikasikan adanya celah (gap) antara kebijakan Tapera dan harapan masyarakat akan hadirnya solusi keterjangkauan pembiayaan hunian bagi MBR. 

scholarly journals Pandemic Communication: Information Seeking, Evaluation, and Self-Protective Behaviors in Vietnam and the Republic of Korea

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Audra Diers-Lawson ◽  
Sophie Johnson ◽  
Teela Clayton ◽  
Riko Kimoto ◽  
Bach Xuan Tran ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Seeking ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Republic Of Korea ◽  
Protective Behaviors ◽  
Infection Rates ◽  
The Public ◽  
Theory Evaluation ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Individual

Saliou (Eur J Epidemiol, 1994, 10 (4), 515–517) argued that pandemics are special kinds of crises and requires the public health sector to focus on: 1) reducing uncertainty, 2) rumor mitigation, and 3) ensuring the public reduces their risk of contracting the disease. With this as a backdrop, the central aim of this research is to better understand the connections between public information seeking, evaluation, and self-protective behaviors in the COVID-19 pandemic and focuses on a comparison between the Republic of Korea and Vietnam to provide insights into the influence of the individual, institutional, and information factors influencing people’s experience with COVID-19. Thus, there are two major contributions of this study. First, it provides a cross-theory evaluation of the factors that contribute to information seeking, evaluation, and self-protective behaviors. Second, the study identifies potentially critical differences in information seeking, evaluation, and self-protective behaviors based on acute disease reproduction in countries with a successful pandemic suppression history. Findings suggest that in countries where there are high levels of trust and satisfaction even small changes in the infection rates lead to different information seeking and self-protective behaviors.

A study on the legislative process of the Republic of Korea

1986 ◽  
Vol 1 (0) ◽  
pp. 181-189
Author(s):  
Jae Hoon Chin
Keyword(s):  
Executive Branch ◽  
Republic Of Korea ◽  
Legislative Process ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
The Public ◽  
Legislative Procedures ◽  
Controlling Mechanism ◽  
Legislative Procedure ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Characteristic Features

In view of the importance of Parliamentary System and legislation, this paper tries to examine the formal legislative procedure and its actual workings in the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea in order to find out some characteristic features of the legislative process and to suggest some improvements of the current practices. We found that the characteristic features of legislative procedure in the Korean National Assembly are as follows; First, deliberations at the standing committees occupy the central importance in the entire legislative process. Second, those legislative procedures which require open-door sessions have usually been inaccessible by the public due to short notice and lack of practice of public hearings. And thus the sub-committees have been held either at a closed-session, or at a corner of the lobby, excluding many aspirants of observers. Third, judicial review and presidential veto as a check and controlling mechanism on the law making process have played very insignificant role. Fourth, the Executive Branch has the superior position in the legislative process compared with the Legislative Branch; that is, the Executive Branch can exert greater influence in the submission, deliberation, and passage of the bills. Finally, the 38.1% 1,467 laws of the total 3,853 laws promulgated by the president have been propose by non-representatives. This may be one of the reasons why the general public has low respect and trust in the legislative process and the parliamentary democracy.

scholarly journals Public-Private Partnerships in Republic of Korea: Experience and Results

2015 ◽  
pp. 217-224
Author(s):  
Lee Jae Sung
Keyword(s):  
Capital Investment ◽  
Republic Of Korea ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
The Public ◽  
Energy Environment ◽  
Implementation Guidelines ◽  
Sea Ports ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Government ◽  
Education Culture

The Republic of Korea came to realize the acute necessity of launching the public-private partnership (PPP) at the turn of the 90s, the country happened to fall short of such infra facilities as roadways, railroads, sea ports and airports and the government found itself unable to fully finance their construction works. Although the PPP institutional framework started to get purposely and mostly formed in the first half of the 90s in Korea the PPP itself actually came into occasional practice even before, owing to some legislation, covering roadways and sea ports. There are four main stages to be noted in the development of PPP, consecutively ranging from 1968 to 1994, from 1994 to 1999, from 1999 to 2004 and since 2005 till now. The PPP periods are much related to various amendments to the basic PPP law, initially adopted in August 1994 as the Act on Promotion of Private Capital Investment in Social Overhead Capital which was transformed into the Act on Private Participation in Infrastructure (briefly called the PPP Act) in December 1998. Along with this Act, Korea's PPP institutional basis currently laid by the Enforcement Decree of the Act on Public-Private Partnerships in Infrastructure, the PPP Basic Plan and the PPP Implementation Guidelines. It is the PPP Act that determines 49 types of PPP project-eligible infra facilities, categorized into 15 groups such as roads, railroads, ports, airports, communications, water resources, energy, environment, forestry, logistics, welfare, public housing, military housing, education, culture/tourism. In the aspect of the globally-recognized types of PPP procurement methods, the PPP Act primarily determines the use of such mechanisms as BTL, BTO, BOT, BOO.

scholarly journals Factors related to household food insecurity in the Republic of Korea

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 1080-1087 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirang Kim ◽  
Mi Kyung Kim ◽  
Young-Jeon Shin ◽  
Sang Sun Lee
Keyword(s):  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Food Assistance ◽  
Republic Of Korea ◽  
Household Food Security ◽  
Household Food Insecurity ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Household Food ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Low Income Households

AbstractObjectiveTo examine the prevalence of food insecurity and to identify factors that contribute to it in the Republic of Korea.DesignA cross-sectional study.SettingData were selected from a secondary data set, the third Korean Welfare Panel Study. Household food insecurity was measured with a six-item Korean version of the US Household Food Security Survey Module. The differences in proportions or means of household characteristics, householder's characteristics, economic status and social benefits by food insecurity status were tested with the χ2 or t test. The independent associations of food insecurity with each characteristic were assessed with multivariate logistic regression analysis.SubjectsThe sample size consisted of 6238 households.ResultsThe prevalence of food insecurity was 5·3 % among all households and 25·7 % among low-income households. Risk factors that were associated with a higher risk of food insecurity included living alone, unemployment, no job, low household income and living in a leased or rented home. For low-income households, living in a leased or rented home increased the risk of food insecurity. Among food-insecure households, 26·1 % of the full sample of households and 34·3 % of low-income households were participating in food assistance programmes.ConclusionsFood insecurity among the Korean population was related to household type, income, job status and housing. Food assistance programmes were not enough to completely alleviate food insecurity.

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