Part1. Introduction Part2. Korean Social Policy in East Asian Context
1. Confucian foundation of social policy in Korea: Ideal and reality
2. Reinterpreting the Causes of the Underdeveloped Social Policy during the Economic Development Period in Korea: Missing Parts of the Western Perspectives
3. Economic and Social Policies under the Park Chung-hee Military Government in the 1960s and 1970s Korea
4. Labor policy under the growth economy of Korea: Bimodal strategies of labor control
5. Policy responses to economic crises: 1997 and 2008 compared
6. Striving for social pacts in Korean labor policy: An empty promise
Part3. Politics of Social Policy-making in Korea
7. Political economy of the National Welfare Pension Scheme: Blank efforts
8. Politics of gender equality policy-making: Abolition of the patriarchal family system
9. Contrasting social policy-making dynamics under the same authoritarian political system
10. An uphill battle to establish the unified health insurer system in Korea
11. Changing politics and its impacts on Korean health policy-making
12. Civic groups in Korean health politics: Policy advocate or policy broker?