The course is developed by the National Health Insurance Service in Korea to share its experiences on enhancing social security services in response to some global challenges.

In the twentieth century, the world has faced a large number of complex crises and social security systems have been under challenge. Some of the key global challenges facing social security could be related to COVID-19 and digitalization. A general discussion on social security is needed to share good examples and some innovations that could be taken for transfer.

As part of this endeavor, the symposium was held to focus on the subject of the key global challenges and social security service. It will tackle the issue of how each of institutions is combating against the challenges and explore the role of social security service to enhance its service from some aspects; global cooperation, publicness and service improvement.

The course provides case experience presentations and a high-level panel discussion to share the applicable knowledge and experiences on policymaking and system management with national and international social security institutions.

• Institutional responses to COVID-19 regarding the importance of international cooperation.
• Strategies for strengthening publicity in the condition of post COVID-19.
• Innovative strategic responses to social security institutions in the context of digitalization.

Key Learning Objectives

The learning objective is to enhance social security services in response to the main global challenges by sharing good examples and some innovations that could be taken for transfer and finding implications in comparison with the experiences of different countries or institutions.