Since the enactment of the Social Enterprise Promotion Act in 2007, Korea’s social economy has developed and evolved, centering on the institutionalized sector. Along with Moon Jae-in administration’s social economy revitalization policy, various ...
Since the enactment of the Social Enterprise Promotion Act in 2007, Korea’s social economy has developed and evolved, centering on the institutionalized sector. Along with Moon Jae-in administration’s social economy revitalization policy, various regional strategies or business models based on the social economy have emerged. In addition, awareness of the need to create and strengthen the social economy ecosystem has increased. On the other hand, there is criticism that there is no long-term prospect in a state without enough consensus on the social economy.
From the viewpoint of ‘recovery of citizenship in the social economy,’ this article shows that the free market destroys the balance between community, state, and market and collapses the basis of locality by suppressing sociality and subjecting it to market transactions. As a result, it is confirmed that citizenship, the foundation of capitalism, has been weakened. The stage of social economy development that can respond to the sustainability crisis while restoring lost sociality, overcoming the crisis of relationships, and recovering citizenship based on the recovery of community and locality can be called ‘Social Economy 3.0’. This ‘Social Economy 3.0’ is a mutual and simultaneous process in which empathy and support for the social economy spread. Only through this restorative process can the social economy evolve from the periphery to the social and solidarity economy from the informal to the formal economy.