Is long-term care insurance in South Korea a socialising care policy?
- Authors
- Kim, Hee-Kang
- Issue Date
- 11월-2016
- Publisher
- SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
- Keywords
- ethics of care; long-term care insurance; social policy; South Korea
- Citation
- CRITICAL SOCIAL POLICY, v.36, no.4, pp.630 - 648
- Indexed
- SSCI
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- CRITICAL SOCIAL POLICY
- Volume
- 36
- Number
- 4
- Start Page
- 630
- End Page
- 648
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/87073
- DOI
- 10.1177/0261018316641259
- ISSN
- 0261-0183
- Abstract
- This article begins by posing the question of whether Long-Term Care (LTC) Insurance in South Korea is a socialising care policy. The socialisation of care is an application of the ethics of care as a normative principle governing the public domain. Its key characteristics include challenging the feminisation of care, re-evaluating the value of care, and encouraging the social recognition of care. However, LTC Insurance has reinforced the feminisation of care by treating care as a means for job creation, has weakened the value of care by adopting market distribution principles, and has created a hierarchy of care by professionalising care despite achieving institutionalisation to a certain degree. As a result, Korea's LTC Insurance has failed to achieve the socialisation of care.
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