Social Welfare

The Major of Social Welfare provides diverse and systematic curriculum and training programs to produce professional researchers and competent social workers.

- Social Welfare System and Policy Area : Social insurance areas such as; national pension, health insurance, unemployment insurance, as well as national basic livelihood security, poverty policy, labor and unemployment policy, welfare state comparative study and welfare model development. - Social Welfare Service Area : Child abuse prevention service, family in danger of disintegration support service, the disabled welfare, medical social welfare, school violence prevention program, homeless self-support, welfare for the aged and drug addiction treatment. - Social Action : International organization, non-profit organization, environmental movement or citizens' campaign. (This area can be regarded as one area of social welfare).

The sphere of activities of the social welfare workers includes various kinds of international organizations, press companies, civil organizations, welfare related high-ranking public officials, welfare-related research centers (Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHSA); Korea Labor Institute(KLI)), and various kinds of regional community welfare halls, social welfare facilities and medical institutions.