‘Care Income,’ the Post-Corona Era and the Possibility of New Civic Movement

This paper aims to find a way to expand the care issue, which is emerging as an important social agenda in the post-covid 19 era, into a new area of civic movement seeking an alternative way of life. In Korea after Corona 19, the central and local governments have come up with various measures for the care. Yet they have not been able to promote caring as the central principle of social transformation. Accordingly, those who advocate a new social and ecological transformation after COVID-19 have underlined that care should be the central principle of social transformation, and emphasized the need for a new social movement and civic education that breaks away from growth in the era of climate crisis. However the policy measures to promote caring as the principle of social transformation are not clear at this point. Therefore, after tracing the trajectory by which care has emerged as an important social agenda at the global level after COVID-19, this paper investigates the concept of 'care income,' a proposed policy tool to promote care. Then, this paper will explore the condition for the new solidarity and possibilities based on care that can be created at the global level. By examining the specific paths and programs to institutionalize care and contemplating the implication of these institutionalized care programs, this paper intends to contribute to open up a new field of civic movement in post-covid 19, care-deficit Korean society.