Background of Research
As frequency of natural disasters and size of crop insurance program continue to increase, current income coming from reinsurance premium and government budget is not enough to maintain the reinsurance fund. Stable funding strategies through finding diverse funding sources should be established to prepare for reinsurance payment in case of occurrence of large scale disasters. In addition, institutional improvement such as merging various disaster insurance programs into one big program based on the government fund system has been suggested for efficient management of public finance and government programs.

Method of Research
This study reviewed all disaster insurance programs, reinsurance fund, additional funding strategies, and several developed countries' reinsurance systems. We visited the United States and Japan to study their systems. We also analyzed the effect of merging disaster programs into the reinsurance fund statistically, conducted a simulation analysis for improving government reinsurance system, and considered all possible ideas suggested by policy makers, insurance companies, and researchers in KREI.

Research Results and Implications
After reviewing various disaster related programs including its funding sources and operations, we found that merging all agricultural and marine insurance programs including disaster assistance is most effective from the perspective of risk management and program operation. It would be appropriate to follow the three steps for merging all disaster related programs toward one big fund based program. First, merge all agricultural insurance programs and reinsurance fund. Second, add disaster assistance program to the merged fund. Third, add marine insurance programs to the merged fund.
We reviewed current reinsurance system and possibility of pursuing external funding and operating profit business to secure additional funding for the reinsurance fund. There are three possible strategies to increase the fund at this time: applying the US reinsurance system to our system, merging disaster related programs and reinsurance fund, increasing government contribution from the general account.
The Management of Agriculture Policy Fund(MOAF), which is in charge of managing the reinsurance fund, needs to expand its organization if all disaster programs are merged into the reinsurance fund. Furthermore, MOAF needs to establish four departments including 13 teams with 5 members per team if it takes on a role as the National Agricultural and Marine Insurance Corporation which the government pursues.


Researchers: Wonho Chung, Kyung-Hwan Choi
Research Period: 2013. 6 ～ 2013. 9
E-mail address: wchung@krei.re.kr