Introduction
The roles of the state in the economy and social welfare
A theoretical framework for analysing the process of policy formation and change
Social and economic policies during the export-led industrialisation of the 1960s
Social and economic policies during the heavy and chemical industrialisation in the 1970s
Stabilisation, liberalisation and social policies : 1980-1992
Social and economic policies under globalisation : 1993-1997
Financial crisis, economic policy, and social policy : 1998-present
Conclusions
Epilogue : assessment of the existing social security system in Korea.