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Farewell to old legacies? The introduction of long-term care insurance in South Korea

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Author	Kim, Jin Wook Choi, Young Jun
Copyright Year	2012
Description	South Korea has been experiencing unprecedented socio-economic transformations in which an ageing population is widely regarded as a key challenge. As an unlikely consensus on state intervention in care has emerged since early 2000, South Korea has achieved rapid development of welfare state programmes. The introduction of long-term care insurance (LTCI) in 2008 is one of the important steps. However, it is still highly debatable whether the Korean welfare state has departed from its path of both developmentalism and Confucianism. This paper aims to analyse the nature of LTCI in South Korea and to examine whether its introduction could mean a divergence from these two important policy legacies. This research has reached an ambiguous conclusion. The regulatory role of the government and concerns about the costs of LTCI are regarded as a developmentalist legacy, whereas Confucian legacies seem to be withering away since LTCI shifts care responsibility from the family to the state. However, the study found that the state has difficulty in regulating the market and costs, and deeply embedded familialism seems difficult to overcome.
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Ending Page	887
Page Count	17
Starting Page	871
ISSN	0144686X
e-ISSN	14691779
DOI	10.1017/s0144686x12000335
Journal	Ageing and Society
Issue Number	5
Volume Number	33
Language	English
Publisher	Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publisher Date	2013-07-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Ageing and Society Health Policy and Services term Care Insurance Korean Welfare State
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Arts and Humanities Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Health (social science) Social Psychology Geriatrics and Gerontology

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