Welfare Reform and the impact of Presidentialism in South Korea

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This study aimed to explain the political mechanism of welfare development in South Korea, focusing on the impact of Presidentialism. In Korea, the President and the NGOs played a major role in welfare reform, and the essential characteristics of the presidential institution enabled the NGOs to have represented the interests of people underrepresented in the parliament. By exploring welfare politics in Korea, this study tried to provide a new perspective on the welfare state theory which tended to focus exclusively on the experiences of Western industrial countries.