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Since the Park Chung-Hee regime established a range of women's policies, including those on population, mobilization of female labor, and suppression of prostitution, the government's stance toward women has leaned toward the promotion of women's welfare. Following the economic crisis of 1997, the Kim Dae-Jung administration developed the so-called productive welfare policy in line with its goals of economic recovery. Women's policies under Kim Dae-Jung were thus the products of these two streams: Women's welfare and economic crisis management. This paper discusses the policies on women of the Kim Dae-Jung government in the following fields: Labor, welfare, sexual violence, women's human rights, political participation, government organizations for women, and other legal and institutional developments. While labor and welfare issues were more directly influenced by Kim Dae-Jung's productive welfare policy, other issues were approached as well, including women's human rights, political participation, and legal and institutional fields. I also explore the relationship between women's movements and gender politics. Finally, the results of this study point to the necessity for Kim Dae Jung's government to implement a more consistent and clear conceptualization and approach to women's policies.
