Far East

Far East

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ssd
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Not official

Introduction of National Pension Scheme and Provision of Pension Service via Mobile(NPS next Door App)

Following the social trend of more smart phone usage than PCs, the National Pension Service seeks to make processes effecient and innovate services by strengthening non-face to face channels, expanding remote services utilizing ICT technologies, effectively introducing the national pension scheme, strengthening communication channels with the public and improving the convenience of using e-information service to enable citizens to easily use pension-related services through their mobile phones anywhere and anytime, and pursues to continuously identify service contents to promote mobile usag

Provision of Various Services for Retirement Preparation by Connecting with Relevant Institutions

•Developed joint service network and system with 18 types of local government welfare services and 16 specialized agencies by collaborating (singing MOUs and organizing consultative groups) with relevant organizations in respective fields (finance, healthcare, leisure, interpersonal relationships) of retirement preparation including local governments and specialized agencies. •Introduce relevant services provided by organizations and provide information by identifying welfare services that citizens need or want in the process of consultations on preparing for retirement.

Increasing Pension Enrolment of Non-regular Workers

While National Pension enrolment rate for regular workers in Korea was 82 percent*, the rate for non-regular workers was a mere 38 percent, showing their vulnerable retirement planning. There was a call to strengthen social safety net to realize ‘pension per person’ by reducing the risk of non-regular workers falling through the cracks of the social insurance system amid a gradual rise in the number of non-regular workers like daily and part-time workers due to labor market flexibility.

National Health Alarm Services: Predict and prevent the outbreak of infectious diseases through combination of various big data

This practice has provided variety health alarms to the public before the epidemic spreads out. 2 3 It combines different data from diverse sources such as national health information from National Health Insurance Service (NHIS), social data from Twitter, climate information from National Meteorological Office (NMO), air pollution information from Environmental Science Institute (ESI) and number of food poisoning confirmed from Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS). Five infectious disease : cold, eye disease, food poisoning, dermatitis and asthma are continuously monitored.