Seoul Welfare Foundation-Korea Legal Protection Welfare Corporation, Legal Support Agreement... Expansion of Welfare Legal Support Beneficiaries

Promoting the Elimination of Welfare Blind Spots

[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Cheol-young] The Seoul Welfare Foundation's Seoul Social Welfare Public Interest Law Center will sign a legal support business agreement on the 2nd with the Korea Rehabilitation Welfare Corporation Seoul Branch to provide legal support services aimed at resolving legal disputes that legal protection subjects and their families may face during the process of settling in the local community.

The Korea Rehabilitation Welfare Corporation is a public institution under the Ministry of Justice established under the Act on Probation, etc. and the Social Welfare Services Act, with the purpose of promoting the sound social reintegration of legal protection subjects through rehabilitation welfare and conducting effective crime prevention activities. The Public Interest Law Center will sign this agreement with the Seoul Branch, which oversees the Seoul area.

The purpose of this agreement is for the two organizations to cooperate systematically to provide relief and prevention to prevent legal protection subjects and their families from being exposed to further criminal victimization or recidivism due to economic and psychological difficulties during the process of preparing for social reintegration. In particular, families of legal protection subjects have been a new welfare blind spot where sufficient support has not been provided due to social prejudice. Through this agreement, it is expected to contribute to the enhancement of legal welfare for vulnerable welfare groups that have not received attention so far.

According to this agreement, the Public Interest Law Center will provide legal services for relief such as consultation, filing complaints, and claims for damages related to criminal victimization cases frequently suffered by protection subjects, such as identity theft. It will also support legal services for various legal disputes experienced by the families of protection subjects in the process of community independence, including lease, labor, family, and social service provision, and seek various cooperation measures for victim prevention.

Kim Sang-cheol, CEO of the Seoul Welfare Foundation, said, “There has been relatively little social interest in the legal difficulties faced by legal protection subjects and their families during the process of social reintegration due to various social prejudices,” adding, “Following the expansion of legal welfare support to self-reliant youth (former wards) to restore the ladder of social mobility, we have now expanded the target group to include legal protection subjects.”

Lee Hyun-mi, head of the Korea Rehabilitation Welfare Corporation Seoul Branch, said, “Our corporation is making great efforts to establish a community legal support network for legal protection subjects and their families who are in the blind spots of legal aid due to social prejudice and exclusion,” adding, “This agreement has become a starting point for the activation of such legal support services, and we thank the Seoul Social Welfare Public Interest Law Center for willingly joining us to ensure public safety and prevent the intergenerational transmission of crime.”

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