Basic Income in Korea and Beyond

Chung Mee-Hyun is a professor of theology at the United Graduate School of Theology of Yonsei University, Seoul, and serves as the Dean of university chaplain of Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. She is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea (PROK). She holds a Dr. theol. from Basel University, Switzerland. In 2006, Chung received the Karl Barth Prize from the Union of Protestant Churches within the EKD for her doctoral dissertation and other related articles. She also received Marga Buehrig prize in 2013. She was named one of ten key Reformed theologians by the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) in 2017.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part 1: Biblical Implication regarding Basic Income.-  Chapter 2: Two foundations of the Theory of Basic Income: Natural Rights and Biblical Laws .- Chapter 3: A Reflection for “Anyone Unwilling to Work” (2 Thessalonians 3:10) from the Perspective of Basic Income .- Part 2: Church Historical, Ethical and Feminist Theological Approach on Basic Income.- Chapter 4: Basic Income Based on Luther and Calvin’s Economic Thoughts: Focusing on the Jubilee Thought.- Chapter 5: The Necessity and Directivity of Basic Income from the Perspective of Christian Ethics: Focusing on the Ethics of the Other .- Chapter 6: A Discourse on Basic Income from the Perspectives of Reformed Spirituality and Feminist Theology .- Part 3: Socio Ethical Suggestion and Social Scientist Approaches toward Realization of Basic Income.- Chapter 7: A Social Ethical concept of Ecological- Oriented Basic Income-Based on the plan of income distribution at the level of national economy .- Chapter 8: Left and Right Basic Income Models and an Alternative: The Variable Basic Income .- Chapter 9: A pro-outsider policy? Why an unconditional basic income could contribute to tackling the causes and effects of labor market dualization .- Chapter 10: Conclusion: Summary and suggestion of research results.