The editorial committee of the Health and Social Welfare Review of the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs held the ‘2021 Health and Social Welfare Review Colloquium,’ at the President Hotel in Seoul on June 30. This colloquium was also broadcast live on KIHASA’s YouTube channel. The theme of the colloquium was ‘Children’s Life and Happiness in the Era of New Normal.’ Experts and scholars in the field of children gathered to reflect on this topic, answering the question of what we should do now for the lives and happiness of children in the future.