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A Study on Factors Affecting Welfare Awareness Lee, Ok-Ja․Cha, Jae-Kwon This study presents the alternative policy direction for regional welfare policies and influences the welfare awareness of the seven regions through analyses of the impact factors of local residents on welfare. In order to do this, the supplementary survey data of KOWEPS for the 8th year (2013) was used. The factors influencing perception toward welfare were categorized as self-interest, socialization, and ideological factors and regression analysis was conducted. The result of regression analysis showed that there were significant differences among the independent variables for the 7 regions. In Gyeonggi /Incheon, Daejeon /Chungnam, and Gwangju /Jeonnam / Jeonbuk /Jeju areas, it showed significant effect for self-interest, socialization, and ideological factors on welfare perception, while the socialization and ideological factors showed significant effect on welfare perception in Seoul, Busan /Ulsan /Gyeongnam, Gangwon /Chungbuk areas. Also, in Busan /Ulsan /Gyeongnam, men, industrialized and democratized generations showed more positive perceptions toward welfare than women and newer generations, whereas in Gwangju/ Jeonnam /Jeonbuk /Jeju areas, women and newer generations showed more positive perceptions than men, industrialized and democratized generations. Based on the results, a policy plan is proposed according to local identity considering positive factors which affect perception toward welfare. The results of this study show that the influencing factors of welfare perception, which are different from each other in the region, provide important information about the consumers of welfare policy, which may help to establish customized welfare policies in accordance with local identity . Therefore, it is necessary to elaborate the analysis model of the factors affecting the welfare of the region through further research in order to derive a richer policy implication.