A Study of Effecting Information Welfare Policies on Information Satisfaction through Activation of Information Welfare

equal access to information to various sociology-economic layers requires the government to introduce the concept of information welfare, which should provide equal access to information to everyone regardless of class. Information welfare is the ultimate goal of improving the level of information satisfaction and use of information among members of society. Information welfare has emerged as an important issue in our society as it can improve the quality of life and improve productivity of members of society. Just as economic polarization is due to the capital gap in capitalist society, the concept of information welfare is very important to minimize the digital divide and ensure equal opportunities for everyone to have easy access to information. In order to identify the relationship between information welfare policy activation and information satisfaction, this study selected the increase of information education, the establishment of new information policy, and the realization of information policy based on the preceding study as elements of information welfare policy and conducted empirical research. The main results of this study can be summarized as follows: First, the information welfare policy (increase of information education, establishment of new information policies, and realization of information policies) had significant impact on the activation of information welfare. Second, the activation of information welfare had significant effect on information satisfaction. The improvement of information welfare will promote social participation of the underprivileged by expanding human relations. This study is meaningful in presenting a new direction for information welfare policies for the revitalization of information welfare.