Globalization, which developed rapidly from the 1990s, brought about another fundamental change in addition to this relationship between employment and social welfare. The possibility of capital and labor moving across borders increased demand for labor that generates high returns, while labor that could not contribute directly to this became surplus. This became the occasion for unemployment and low-wage labor to become widespread. In addition, each country needed labor policies to attract capital, and accordingly labor-market flexibility was pursued competitively. Since the burden on capital had to be reduced to attract it, policies minimizing capital's share in financing social security were implemented. As a result, temporary, part-time and non-regular forms of employment became widespread. These social problems acted as causes weakening the structure through which social welfare traditionally functions. This is counted as a very big problem in modern society, and social welfare law needs to find a breakthrough in this situation through a shift in thinking.

Since social welfare law has limitations large and small, it needs to be reborn as a legal system suited to the situation through continuous discussion on applying it properly to society. The main text examined the employment-related problems of social welfare law based on a recent social issue, the "Jang Geu-rae law." Through industrial society, a labor surplus arose, and companies minimized capital's share to keep pace with global market trends, which led to an excessive proliferation of non-regular employment. In this situation, social welfare law should no longer target only lifetime, full-time and regular employment; it needs to bring temporary, part-time and non-regular employment within the scope of social welfare as well and prepare policies for them.

Seen in this context, the "Jang Geu-rae law" is significant in that it sought to bring non-regular workers into the scope of social welfare, but it is true that many are skeptical about whether it is truly "welfare" for them. As Yoon Tae-ho, the author of the webtoon "Misaeng," said, it only prolongs the suffering of non-regular workers and never provides opportunities for them. If, after seeing "Misaeng," the aim was to enact a law for the "Jang Geu-rae"s across the country, measures should have been prepared to reduce non-regular employment and regulate in a way that expands regular employment.

For reference, the material writes that employment insurance was introduced in 1996, but the Employment Insurance Act was enacted in 1993 and took effect in July 1995. The so-called Jang Geu-rae law refers to the plan to extend the employment period for fixed-term workers contained in the government's comprehensive measures on non-regular workers in December 2014, and it was not enacted as is. The period for using fixed-term workers is still, in principle, two years under Article 4 of the Act on the Protection, etc. of Fixed-Term and Part-Time Employees, so check the current provision and recent amendments before using it in an assignment.