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In Goryeosa, the chapter of ‘shik-hwa-ji’ shows the social circumstances of Goryeo Dynasty. Based on this chapter, I examined the relief actions of the aged in Goryeo society. In the reign of Hyeon-jong(顯宗), he commanded officials in charge not to slight relief operations of the alienated, handicapped and disabled old people, ‘Hwan-gwa-dok’. I verified the record of his endeavor to display his political commitment by relief action. Men and women in their
eighties who were patients or disabled were provided liquor, meal, green tea and linen. This action is comparable to today’s ‘home-helper social service program’ which helps the aged‘Hwan-gwa-dok’ by providing commodities.
I also verified the records of issuing the command that the aged over age of 90 should be provided food by district officers and the aged‘Hwangwa-dok’ over age of 70 should be cared by ‘shi-jeong’, a carer, and carers are exempted from military service’. These carers were supporters of the solitude elderly, elderly patients and disable old people‘Hwan-gwa-dok’. This action is comparable to dispatching public service staff to social welfare community fields of today.
In addition to practicing administration of saving storage system such as Eui-chang and Sang-pyeong-chang, there were asylums operated for the aged‘Hwan-gwa-dok’. An example of this facility was called ‘Dae-bi-won’ in the record. Based on above records, one aspect of national welfare policy plan such as ‘shi-jeong’: caring service for the aged, which served social service to the elderly‘Hwan-gwa-dok’ could be grasped.