Contents: Yongha Kim/Gyorgy Szell: Foreword ? David Stanton: How are Social Policies in the EU Responding to the Financial Crisis? ? Gary Burtless: Social Protection for the Economic Crisis: The U.S. Experience ? Zheng Gong-Cheng: China’s Social Policy Choices in Times of the World Financial Crisis ? Karen M. Anderson: Weathering the Storm: Consociational Democracy and Crisis Management in the Netherlands ? Martin Seeleib-Kaiser: Social Policy Stability in Times of Economic Crisis: The Case of Germany ? Peter Abrahamson: Crisis Governance in Denmark: Is Flexicurity Delivering? ? Yong Chan Byun: Policy Tasks for Social Integration in Times of the Economic Crisis : the Case of South Korea ? Takanobu Kyogoku: The Relationship between the Economic Crisis, Non-regular labourers, and Social Security in Present-day Japan ? Jinsoo Kim/Rah-il Hwang/Kyungha Kim: The Current Status of Health Insurance and Tasks Ahead ? ChongYon Park/Min Jung Ko/Jun Tae Han/Jin-Jee Kwon: Efficient Management of Medical Treatment Costs of the Health Insurance for the Elderly ? Jhinyoung Shin: The Financial Crisis and its Impact on the Pension and Retirement Income System ? Jun-Ho Bae: Korean National Pensions: Facts and Functions in 2009.