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Social enterprise can be understood as the third sector economy, the business which makes social purpose and profit-making activity properly. According to Article 2 in Social Promotion Act, the definition of the social enterprise is the business which provides jobs and social welfare to the vulnerable, elevating life quality of local people, at the same time, also inquiring the social object and accomplishing the business activity. The words "society" and "enterprise" contain two characters of realization of social value, and creating revenue through business function. Therefore, social enterprise epochally manages new jobs and devises creation of public service. However, in order to develop social enterprise, government, people, and enterprises need to cooperate. Some of the vulnerable in our society gets eliminated from the government's livelihood subsidy, and some people can't even request for subsidy, because the government keeps changing the words in the policy. Even worse, there has been numerous case about terrible sexual assault, and sex offense to handicapped people today. The human rights of those who are powerless, poor, and vulnerable is being violated. In result, our country is in avoision. The government's welfare policy business to solve these problems didn't go very well, because the policies didn't support one another, making the whole system inactive. In addition, government and municipal governments failed to build bonding system, which lead to another failure of unified organization establishment. In order to compensate this kind of problems, our government went through countless trials and errors, trying to discover better ideas to apply welfare service properly. The policy of government's basic livelihood subsidy was not enough to help the unfortunate, so the government announced the Social Enterprise Promotion Act in 2007. Before the social enterprise came out, the applicable area which social welfare organizations provided was limited to such as employment, labor, hospital, education, caring service, etc. However, an unemployment rate of our country has been increasing a lot. It is getting more difficult for the unemployed people to get a job, and the number of people who are unable to find a job regardless of their demand has also been increasing. Therefore, in order to help out the unemployed who are weak in competition of getting employed find a job, the government needs to make social enterprise a big assistance for people. As the government began to apply social enterprise, they want to find a further method which can take care of application of social welfare to people and making the unemployed or handicapped employed. This kind of effort and trials of government are having an influence on Korean economy. If the government is able to provide safety-guaranteed jobs to the unemployed and supply social welfare of good quality, it will be an epic economical success. So far, the there has been a big financial progress through social enter prise. However, even though the social enterprise in on the track of expansion, there still are some problems with it. First, social enterprise is dependent to the government's financial support. In other words, if the government stops supporting even if they didn't want to, social enterprise dies. Second, the directors of social enterprise lacks professionality. If they compete with non-government enterprise, they will lose for sure. Lastly, the government's budget becomes wasteful because of unreasoning support. This will result in lack of durability of social enterprise, making it disposable and unsafe business. Also, the weak part of social enterprise has to be worked on and the safety of getting employed needs to be guaranteed. Therefore, we shouldn't focus on reckless expansion of social enterprise, rather make social enterprise that's already built stronger. We also need distinguished support policy and more efficient management skills. We need to study about whether or not social enterprise has possibility of maintaining the position, because it is definitely a business which functions as an economic organization. Also, we need to come up with solutions for the problems our social enterprise currently has, and lead it to the right direction. The growth of social enterprise will eventually be an important way to help out the helpless with social welfare policy. Therefore, I would like to discuss about the direction of social enterprise with important matters like an enforcement ordinance and enforcement regulations. Also, I am going to suggest problems and solutions social enterprise policy currently has through analyzation of our social enterprise and foreign social enterprise.