Setting Medium-Term Research Tasks to Respond to the Changing Policy Environment

Abstract

This study has two purposes. First, we analyze changes in the policy environment that Korean society and social policies face or will face. Second, we propose directions and tasks that should be promoted for future social policy. As part of this study, an expert panel survey was conducted to predict future policy direction and environment, and our keyword analysis of research conducted by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs over the past three years. The main keywords identified for research direction and task setting were ‘sustainability’ and ‘diversity’. In order to diagnose and set the direction of social policy and the Korean welfare state, government-funded research institutions should be encouraged to engage in collaborative research tasks that can respond to dynamic changes.