Youth unemployment rate in Korea is getting increased and it is becoming serious as a social problem, particularly in Daegu and Gyungsangbukdo. Going through this situation, Social Economy is getting paid attention as a solution for youth unemployment...
Youth unemployment rate in Korea is getting increased and it is becoming serious as a social problem, particularly in Daegu and Gyungsangbukdo. Going through this situation, Social Economy is getting paid attention as a solution for youth unemployment in Daegu and Gyungsangbukdo. This study is to activate Social Economy in the local level, encouraging young field workers. This study focused on analyzing the ideas of Social Economy, Work Willingness, and the Current Situation that young field workers are facing with in Daegu and Gyungsangbukdo.
Young workers, majoring in Social Economy in Deagu and Gyungsangbukdo are the main subjects for qualitative and quantitative methods. In qualitative analyzing, Social Economy is recognized as a way of welfare, not as Alternative Economy. Furthermore, young workers in Social Economy are not satisfied with several reasons: Unstable Visionary Plan and Low Possibility of Company’s Growth, Value Conflict with the representatives and Insufficient Governmental Support.
In quantitative analyzing, these four options have positive scales on Social Economy: Work Willingness, Awareness, Confidence and Satisaction Level. Work Willingness positively impacted on awareness, confidence and satisaction level particularly with path analyzing method. However, it was found that Awareness and Confidence had negative effects on Satisfaction Level. This study find out that Work Willingness is the most important to Work Willingness to activate youth participation in the field of Social Economy.