공적연금 현황 분석을 통한 발전 방안

Abstract

Currently the aging population in rapidly increasing owing to the extensive of the average life span, which in a feature in modern industry. This reconstruction may have to done based on scientific investigations that make programs' long-term financial stability and generational equity possible. Many countries have performed pension reform for changing social, economic, and demographic environment. First of all, it has been a change for the worse of demographic dependency because of an aging society. And a low-growth of economy has been popular in the world. These changes threatened a sustainability of public pension. This paper accounts for the necessity and typology of structural reform in pubic pension. This paper contributes to pension reformer's interest in that it addresses one of the most challenging issue the nation faces or will face near future by designing pension reform scheme. Korea is one of the fastest aging societies on OECD countries. Pension reform has been one of the most imminent social agenda in recent decades. However, the pension reform in Korea so far has not been satisfactory in many respects. Even after a series of parametric reforms the National Pension is still vulnerable for the long-term financial unsustainability. A pension reform act for public servants is just submitted to the Congress. Pension reforms for other special vocational sectors such as military pension and private school teachers have not started yet and long way to go ahead. The paper studies past experiences of pension reform in Korea and explores the most urgent issues discussed among researchers and policy makers. It also proposes extensive options for the future reform and examines their pros and cons.