사회적 대화의 주요 이슈

Abstract

This paper analyzed major issues of social dialogue in Korea. Social dialogue in Korea has been developed gradually through the process of political and social democratization since 1987. Nevertheless there has been controversial evaluations about the performance and contributions of social dialogue. That is, critics against social dialogue and advocates for social dialogue have coexisted. This phenomenon means that both expectations and challenges about social dialogue are big in Korean society that has yet not enough experiences of dialogue, compromise and discussion. Meanwhile in the tripartite commission the important discussion themes did not reach in many cases to agreement in spite of numerous meetings and discussions. Along with it, in many cases even the agreed themes have not been carried on. The insufficiency of visible and quantitative performance has contributed to the negative evaluation of social dialogue. The performance of social dialogue has been evaluated until now result-oriented, visible quantitative performance-oriented and short time-oriented. For the total and balanced performance evaluation of social dialogue all other activities of social dialogue besides until now serious considered agreement should be recognized as a part of performance of social dialogue. The conditions of total and balanced performance evaluation of social dialogue can be suggested as follows; balanced evaluation of results and processes, balanced evaluation of tangible and intangible performance, balanced evaluation of short time and long time performance, balanced evaluation of internal and external customers.