As oppression of globalization is accelerated, the social-economic changes give rise to different social risks such as the changes of labour market and family-structure, environmental pollution, the change of season, and so on. That is why people's li ...
As oppression of globalization is accelerated, the social-economic changes give rise to different social risks such as the changes of labour market and family-structure, environmental pollution, the change of season, and so on. That is why people's lives are much more dangerous than before. The old social risks served as a certain degree of safe net before and after dangerous matters according to the social welfare policy, namely, the system of social risk management. The system, in fact, took charge of risks related to the loss of labour-ability like unemployment, diseases, and disability in the industrial society. The working poor and the unemployed young men, however, come out as new dangerous group because of creasing of employment-instability by labour market flexibility in the post industrial society. People are in more dangerous daily-lives owing to environmental pollution, destruction of ecology, global warming. Moreover, as women's participation in labour market increases, caring for children and the old men in family reveals limits. Or women are limited by approaching to labour market because they assume the primary responsibility for caring. The present social security system can work as the safe net for new social risks no longer. Judging from the viewpoint, the welfare nation as the system of social risk management comes to the crisis of risk. The study seeks the risk management strategy for new social risks, and then examines the recent social welfare policy as the system of risk management in Korea. Considering from dividing risk strategy into 'risk prevention,' 'risk reduction,' and 'risk coping,' the risk strategy handles rather 'risk coping' whose target is the poor class than 'risk revention.'