I Will Try to Establish Proper Social Insurance 

With the Development of Social Insurance Professionals   

- Chairman Han Sang Wun of Social Insurance Association Worker -

At the time of looking at 100 years of the human life span, the importance of Social Insurance is getting bigger and bigger. Of total budget of 355.7 trillion won for 2014, the social welfare budget for health, welfare, employment reached fully 105.9 trillion won, and the demand for social insurance caused by low birth rate and rapidly aging population seems to increase more and more. Following the social insurance obligation, there are many recipients, who do not know the social insurance and need advice on how to use it efficiently. That's why small business owners as well as individuals, small-scale businessmen, small and medium sized companies, and enterprises of middle standing need social insurance workers. The social insurance refers to the four insurances such as the national pension, health insurance, unemployment insurance, and accident insurance, and the social insurance worker is the professional consultant to help the realization of advanced welfare in the 21st century and the creative economy though the efficient operation of the social insurance systems. The role of social insurance worker, the professional consultant, is to protect the recipient right of the social insurance for workers and people, to promote the rationalization of the company's management of social insurance, and to contribute to the facilitation of social insurance services. There is a Social Insurance Association Workers devoting itself to helping minimize the burden on workers and enterprises by actively guiding ways to ease the burden of social insurance fee such as the support of social insurance fee, 98,000 won per capita per month in accordance with relieving the social insurance fee for social enterprises if they have all the four insurances, the system to support the 50% of pension insurance and employment insurance fee for low-wage workers respectively 

in small business with fewer than 10 employees through the Durunuri social insurance, the support of business owner's share, for two years, of unemployment insurance and national pension insurance for time workers etc. Social Insurance Association Workers is leading proper social insurance settlement by training Social insurance professionals, which is, that is to say, focused on the equitable benefit of qualified recipients on bearing social insurance fee. In addition, though conducting business such as various reports, application, reporting, billing etc by the Social Insurance Act, Social Insurance Association Worker promotes the facilitation of social insurance services of the government, the protection of workers' insurance recipients rights, the rationalization of the company's management of social insurance, through which the association is training professionals for the purpose of settling 21st century advanced welfare by contributing to the efficient operation of Social insurance system. The social insurance system, starting from the Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance in 1964, being expanded to child-care leave wages and maternity perinatal leave together with National Pension, National Health Insurance, Unemployment Insurance under the maternity protection act in 2001, introduced the Act on Long-Term Care Insurance for the Aged in 2008. 

The social insurance system which the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Ministry of Employment and Labor are in charge of respectively through National Health Insurance Corporation, National Health Insurance Corporation, and Korea Workers’ Compensation and Welfare Service, so it is exposing problems for mutual relations between them. As a result, social insurance expert consultants want to eliminate the blind spot of social insurance by being operated through making use of each character. Social Insurance Association Worker, for the proper settlement of the social insurance system, produces skilled workers with expertise in the social insurance by registering as a private qualification under the regulation of the Basic Law of Qualifications, article 2 No 3. They are professionals having passed the qualifying examination of social insurance, promotes the qualified recipient right for people, promotes the Rationalization of Social Insurance for companies, and contributes to social insurance services for the state, with which they are leading the formulation of effective insurance value. There are obligatorily applicable report  by four insurances, the report of the insured people qualification and loss, premium calculation and payment, application of various benefits, consultation on four social insurance services for workers, raising of an objection, appeal for review and reexamination etc in social insurance business. Companies are able to progress more efficient work, reduce the unnecessary expenditure of social insurance fee, and prevent in advance disadvantages caused by the delay such as reports by dealing the day-to-day business like reports, application, billing though  professional consultant's perspective. In addition, they can greatly contribute to affiliated workers' rights. And the system has the advantage to increase work efficiency through the specialized services and linkages with other social insurance system, which plays a role in improving the quality of social insurance service, and makes the foundation to become a consumer-oriented social insurance. The people related with Social Insurance with certified labor attorneys as the spindle in 1998 established the labor-management relations research corporation, which has been developed into Social Insurance Association Worker, and has been shouting out for the past more ten years the importance of social insurance, why we need to train the social insurance professionals. Thanks to that, people, companies, organizations  have benefited, and it received high praise for leading proper settlement of social insurance. 

Chairman Hang Sang wun says that he would actively solve shortcomings and contradictions of social insurance, and would work for the education in order for them to be competent professionals for social insurance of ROK. The social insurance workers work in relation to capacity building such as tax accountant, a hospital administration, officials in charge of personnel and labor of companies. Approximately 600 labor corporations accompany the association as the insurance agency offices. The social insurance worker, in the age of convergence, is a professional consultant, who can be developed as the high-income group if we should increase its added value through a three-layer security system such as national pension, retirement pension, and personal pension, by combining public insurance and personal one in the future  in connection with ERP, CRM etc. The social insurance worker is divided into class 1 and 2, and in order to make Difficulty Adjustment, they provide 5 problems everyday through daily quizzes. They ensure objectivity by publishing workbook of item pool, Level 2 tests is conducted four times a year, first class test is twice a year, all the schedules  can be identified on the web site (www.siaw.or.kr). Social Insurance Workers Association presents a variety of directions in line with the government's Creative Economy by seeking the diversification of its business. The association plans to contribute to the social contribution through the following programs: Diversification of education, distance learning of contents development on cyber education  and its supply, expanded professional education courses on offline, job creation by government services business, pension consulting by a three-layer security system of countries ? company ? individual, conducting ongoing scholarship program in connection with social insurance-related colleges. university-industry. This is the time when the need for social insurance and its expertise is being expanded to the extent that an amendment is tabled in committee such as the tax accountants are included in insurance office agencies as Office Support for four insurances labor corporate bodies are conducting, and the roles of 1,700 Social Insurance Workers having being produced from Social Insurance Workers Association seem to be even greater. And they will play roles as consultants for make efficient social insurance and consulting for small businessmen, small-scale businessmen, small and medium-sized enterprises, by showing the ability to perform the basic duties in one or more employees firm, and they are expected to improve their competitiveness through social insurance workers, expect them to serve as an experts of social insurance. The social insurance workers will show the ability to perform the basic duties in one or more employees firm, and after landing a job they'll improve their competitiveness, help each company's employment security and job supporting due to social insurance certification, and so prospects for the social insurance worker   look bright from the point of view of the unique features of social insurance, not from the certified labor attorney and tax accountant. Chairman Han Sang wun of Social Insurance Workers Association is an adjunct professor of Social Welfare Department, Westminster Graduate School of Theology, and is working as a professional consultant for public and personal insurances of senior class after retirement from Kyobo Life Insurance.