한센인의 완전한 사회복귀 방안의 모색

Abstract

The leprosy patient's(Hansen disease patient's) settlement village policy of Korean government has been regarded as successful by foreign countries but unexpectedly has suffered it's side-effects. In early 1960's the reasonable policy shift from the absolute isolation policy which is a legacy of Japanese colonial days toward the settlement village policy was right in the Korean Hansen disease history. Through this policy, Hansen's people has obtained economic independence by hard work. The government helped the Hansen's peoples in the settlement village to have sufficient room for animal raising farm by selling them state land and to arrange the market for their products：eggs, meat. This assistance enabled the Hansen's people in the settlement village to overcome the early difficulties which they would encounter in the farm management. But, this kind of state assistance leaded to the control over Hansen's people in the settlement village through the Hansen's people semi-autonomous association. In addition, it hindered the perfect social inclusion of Hansen's people. A crisis in livestock industry after UR in 1990's, environment problem in the animal raising farm, growth in portion of the old labour force in settlement village, democratization of the society, and development project around the farm have pushed the settlement village to a crisis. The discovery of infringement of Hansen's people's fundamental right before 1960's, compensation of the loss, and perfect social inclusion have not yet occurred. We still should solve the problems that is still over us. The mission of the social inclusion of Hansen's peoples can be only completed successfully through the endeavor of the Hansen's people themselves. And if the state and society all together do their best, the Hansen's people's problem can be perfectly solved.