The Korean Welfare State: Social Investment in an Aging Society - Hardcoverby Kyungbae Chung (Editor), Neil Gilbert (Editor) The birth and remarkable expansion of Korean social welfare policy over the last several decades has taken place amidst the socio economic burdens of a rapidly aging society. This book surveys these developments through the analytic lens of the Social Investment State, under which contemporary policies have altered the essential character of the 20th century welfare states, which had provided a