More than half of the citizens of Korea think various areas in society such as the distribution structure, employment, welfare and political activities are "unfair."
According to the "Major Results of an Analysis of the Social Integration Survey 2015" released by the Korea Institute of Public Administration on December 22, only 27.7% of the respondents answered "Fair" to a question asking whether the socio-economic distribution structure was fair. Only 25.7% answered that the relationship between large businesses and small and medium-sized enterprises was fair.
The percentage of respondents that answered "Fair" differed slightly according to the social field-political activities (30.0%), employment opportunity (35.4%), balanced regional development (36.8%), law enforcement (37.9%), taxation and the payment of taxes (38.5%), press coverage (39.2%), treatment according to gender (47.0%), military service (48.2%), etc.-but most saw our society as unfair. The majority of people thought the situation was fair only when it came to education opportunity (57.8%). In particular, only 35.3% and 35.1% recognized that the Prosecutors' Office and courts were fair respectively, showing our society's serious lack of trust.
The respondents who answered that conflicts due to the gap between the rich and the poor were serious reached 84%. And 86.7% of the people answered that the ideological conflict between the conservatives and the progressives was serious. As for conflicts between generations, 65.1% of respondents said it was significant. This is a significant increase from previous years: 64.1% answered that conflicts between generations was serious in 2013 and 62.3% in 2014. The public's participation in politics and social issues was generally low. While the people were relatively active in their participation in alumni and hometown activities (31.3%), group activities (20.0%) and religious groups (17.7%), they barely joined political parties (1.6%), a political group activity, and civic groups (2.2%).
The people also gave low marks for cooperation between the government and the National Assembly. Only 18.3% answered that the government and the National Assembly were cooperative, 29.6% said there was cooperation among central government ministries, and 26.0% answered that the central and local governments were cooperative, suggesting the need to strengthen cooperative interaction within the government. Also only 21.8% answered that the government was communicating with the citizens.
When measuring satisfaction with life on a scale of 0 to ten with ten being the highest score, the members of our society scored 5.8. This is lower than the result of the social indicator (average 6.6) and World Values Survey (average 6.8) by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The Korea Institute of Public Administration assessed, "We need to actively address this issue for it is a figure lower than the average of all the countries subject to the survey and not just the major countries such as the U.S., Germany and Japan."
The institute held a symposium on the topic, "realizing social trust and establishing cooperative governance" and released the "Major Results of an Analysis of the Social Integration Survey 2015." During the debate, Kim Seok-ho, a professor of sociology at Seoul National University said, "The government, businesses and politicians seem to be in a league of their own, and the responsibility in state administration failures are being pushed onto the citizens. The government should increase the opportunity to communicate with the public, inform them that the government is implementing policies that approach the public and reach an agreement by presenting state administration goals to support this."
The 2015 social integration survey was organized by the Korea Institute of Public Administration and conducted by Gallup Korea. They visited the homes of the respondents and conducted interviews of 7,700 people aged 19-69 nationwide.
According to the "Major Results of an Analysis of the Social Integration Survey 2015" released by the Korea Institute of Public Administration on December 22, only 27.7% of the respondents answered "Fair" to a question asking whether the socio-economic distribution structure was fair. Only 25.7% answered that the relationship between large businesses and small and medium-sized enterprises was fair.
The percentage of respondents that answered "Fair" differed slightly according to the social field-political activities (30.0%), employment opportunity (35.4%), balanced regional development (36.8%), law enforcement (37.9%), taxation and the payment of taxes (38.5%), press coverage (39.2%), treatment according to gender (47.0%), military service (48.2%), etc.-but most saw our society as unfair. The majority of people thought the situation was fair only when it came to education opportunity (57.8%). In particular, only 35.3% and 35.1% recognized that the Prosecutors' Office and courts were fair respectively, showing our society's serious lack of trust.
The respondents who answered that conflicts due to the gap between the rich and the poor were serious reached 84%. And 86.7% of the people answered that the ideological conflict between the conservatives and the progressives was serious. As for conflicts between generations, 65.1% of respondents said it was significant. This is a significant increase from previous years: 64.1% answered that conflicts between generations was serious in 2013 and 62.3% in 2014. The public's participation in politics and social issues was generally low. While the people were relatively active in their participation in alumni and hometown activities (31.3%), group activities (20.0%) and religious groups (17.7%), they barely joined political parties (1.6%), a political group activity, and civic groups (2.2%).
The people also gave low marks for cooperation between the government and the National Assembly. Only 18.3% answered that the government and the National Assembly were cooperative, 29.6% said there was cooperation among central government ministries, and 26.0% answered that the central and local governments were cooperative, suggesting the need to strengthen cooperative interaction within the government. Also only 21.8% answered that the government was communicating with the citizens.
When measuring satisfaction with life on a scale of 0 to ten with ten being the highest score, the members of our society scored 5.8. This is lower than the result of the social indicator (average 6.6) and World Values Survey (average 6.8) by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The Korea Institute of Public Administration assessed, "We need to actively address this issue for it is a figure lower than the average of all the countries subject to the survey and not just the major countries such as the U.S., Germany and Japan."
The institute held a symposium on the topic, "realizing social trust and establishing cooperative governance" and released the "Major Results of an Analysis of the Social Integration Survey 2015." During the debate, Kim Seok-ho, a professor of sociology at Seoul National University said, "The government, businesses and politicians seem to be in a league of their own, and the responsibility in state administration failures are being pushed onto the citizens. The government should increase the opportunity to communicate with the public, inform them that the government is implementing policies that approach the public and reach an agreement by presenting state administration goals to support this."
The 2015 social integration survey was organized by the Korea Institute of Public Administration and conducted by Gallup Korea. They visited the homes of the respondents and conducted interviews of 7,700 people aged 19-69 nationwide.
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