Abstract
South Korea’s green job policy was implemented in February 2008 as a part of low-carbon green growth policy, but has been discontinued at the present. The country’s actual energy and environmental consumption has continuously increased, and South Korean society has grown increasingly distant from sustainable development. The study constructs a theoretical framework centering on sustainable development and analyzes the process and contents of South Korea’s green job policy. We suggest four findings: First, in terms of ideology, the nation’s green job policy was based on green growth. Implemented as a strategy typical of developing countries, South Korea’s green growth was pursued as weak ecological modernization, relatively stressing economic growth and excluding citizens’ participation. Second, in terms of governance, the nation’s green job policy was led by the central government, thus nearly completely destroying existing legal and institutional infrastructures related to sustainable development. Third, South Korea’s green job policy was defined on the basis of a growth orientation and concentrated on the Four Major Rivers Restoration Project and the NPP project, both of which betrayed considerable problems from the perspective of sustainable development. Fourth, green jobs were created in traditional environmental protection and pollution reduction and therefore limited.
Highlights
Today, methods of economic growth that depend on fossil energy such as petroleum, coal, and natural gas (NG) have led to climate change unprecedented in human society due to advanced nations, whose economies have gone beyond the mature stage, and to the dramatic economicSustainability 2015, 7 development in recent years of developing countries such as China and India, which consume considerable energy
It is becoming clear that sustainable development is impossible without separating economic growth from the consumption of resource and energy
The economy grew in the 20th Century by pouring in immense energy and materials, this triggered the global environmental crisis and economic crisis, which means that the ecological transformation of the economy centering on green jobs is the option of the future
Summary
Methods of economic growth that depend on fossil energy such as petroleum, coal, and natural gas (NG) have led to climate change unprecedented in human society due to advanced nations, whose economies have gone beyond the mature stage, and to the dramatic economic. Green job policy has become as important as never before because it links the problems of environmental crisis including climate change, which has emerged as a global issue in the 21st Century, economic growth, and employment. Korea’s green growth policy [10,11], the nation’s energy and environmental consumption has continued to increase, and the country has grown increasingly distant from sustainable development. Starting from such problematics, the present study will construct a theoretical framework centering on sustainable development and analyze the process and contents of South Korea’s green job policy.
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