MANDEL SCHOOL
NEWS AND EVENTS
December 08, 2009
Korean Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs Officials visit MSASS and NEOCANDO
From 12/6 to 12/8/2009, South Korean governmental officers of the Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs, Mr. Hwan Wi, Deputy Director and his two colleagues, a director (Dr. Keesung Noh) and a researcher of Korea Social Service Institute, Dr. Kwangho Jung (Professor, Seoul National University Seoul, Korea) visited to the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University in order to observe the welfare delivery system of the U.S. Their visit was hosted by Dr. Joseph White, Director of the Center for Policy Studies.
At CWRU, they discussed the social service system of the U.S. and South Korea at a seminar with CWRU faculty members including Dr. White, Dr. David Crampton, and Dr. David Hammack. Afterward, they visited to Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development.
Dr. Claudia J. Coulton, co-director of CUPCD and Doctoral Candidate, Seok-Joo Kim, introduced the NEO CANDO public and neighborhood data system and the research activities of Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development to the visitors with a presentation and demonstration.
The visitors were excited by the demonstration of NEO CANDO as an example of a way to utilize their administrative data sets in order to evaluate the delivery system of South Korean government.