Seoul The exciting goal set by the Mayor and the City of Seoul was to increase the utilization of community organizing methodology from 5% to 20% in its social welfare delivery system in order to both increase services and sustainability through its “community welfare centers.” Visiting some of their model projects before the Seoul International Welfare …
Month: October 2012
Seoul Mayor and the International Welfare Forum
Seoul The Mayor of Seoul, Won Son Park, is a widely recognized progressive, former human rights lawyer, and as he pointedly mentioned to me, “an activist.” As speakers at the afternoon conference, we were meeting with him early in the morning along with the leadership of the Seoul Welfare Foundation which was sponsoring the Seoul …
Using Community Organizing to Change the Welfare System in Korea
Seoul Without a doubt this is all backwards. I’m giving one of the keynote addresses to the International Seoul Welfare Forum 2012 about the ways that the City of Seoul could reorganize its welfare delivery system through its “community welfare centers” so that 20% of the operation is founded on “community organization” methodology. We had …