Background of Research
The purpose of this study is 1) to investigate the current situation and problems of rural delivery system of social welfare, 2) to identify the current conditions and problems of related policies, and 3) to suggest policy tasks to improve the rural delivery system of social welfare.

Method of Research
The research methods were the field survey, mail survey, and case study. A field survey was conducted among 300 rural residents. A mail survey was conducted among 338 governmental social workers and 186 nongovernment social workers. A case study was conducted in 6 rural counties. Existing related data were collected by searching the data of related research institutes and governmental organizations. Descriptive statistics such as frequencies, percentage, means and F-test tables were used to organize and summarize the data.

Research Results and Implications
Major problems of the rural delivery system of social welfare are as follows: 1) shortage of social welfare resource and the overburden of social welfare tasks, 2) accessibility problem of rural residents, 3) insufficiency of professionalization, 4) insufficiency of service linkage and cooperation between governmental sector and nongovernmental sector, and 5) difficulty of integrated case management and visiting service.
Major policy tasks to improve the rural delivery system of social welfare are as follows: 1) construction of a rural typed delivery system of social welfare, 2) improvement of the accessibility problem for rural residents, 3) upbringing of rural social welfare manpower and reinforcement of professionalization, 4) reinforcement of service linkage and cooperation between governmental sector and nongovernmental sector, 5) reinforcement of the integrated case management and visiting service, and 6) extension of the rural social welfare project in agriculture related institutes.


Researchers: Dae-Shik Park, Kyeong-Hwan Choi, Mi-Hyoung Cho
Research Period: 2012. 1 ～ 2012. 11
E-mail address: pds8382@krei.re.kr