This report focuses on the social, economic and cultural characteristics of Korean welfare state, understanding of the economic situation and well-being of families and individuals, and awareness of the current status of Korean welfare state in terms of comparative welfare states. Has been planned and carried out since 2014 with the purpose of giving theoretical and practical implications for the direction that the 'Korean welfare state' should pursue by diagnosing present and future. The purpose of the research from the first report to the fifth report and major research contents are summarized in Table 1 below.

This is the fifth year of the project (2018) and the final work of this project. The purpose of this report is to examine the historical trends and changes of Korean welfare state based on the understanding of existing research results and to gain insights and implications for future direction of Korean welfare state. In particular, this report sought to emphasize solidarity, citizenship, and universalism as the philosophical foundation of the welfare state. Although these three values are the value that flows into the formation and development bases of western European welfare states especially in Nordic countries. I think it is the philosophical foundation of the Western welfare state that has not lost its vitality.
In this report, the process of the birth of social solidarity through the description of the process of the social risk becoming omnipresent due to the collapse of the community in the process of industrialization, the poverty of the masses, and the process of the virtuous circle in which the social rights citizenship and the universal welfare state are consolidated through the realization of such solidarity We want to show the process (Chapter 2, Chapter 4). In addition, this intrinsic analysis framework is used to describe path-dependent processes in which the suppression of solidarity in the history of Korean welfare state and the diminution of citizenship lead to the vulnerability of universalism (Chapter 3, Chapter 5). Then, by analyzing the present state of poverty and old-age income guarantees that show the result of the actualization of the ages in a compressed way, we will analyze the problems of the welfare state in Korea (Chapter 6). Finally, considering the specificity of the Korean welfare state and the various factors surrounding the welfare state, I intend to conclude this report with the normative and practical suggestions on the direction of the welfare state in Korea (Chapter 7).