26
Delinquent Juveniles, Runaways, Vagrant Children
229
Poor or Unemployed Parents
216
Diseased Parents
86
Missing Children
12
Sub-total
4,121
Sending back home or to acquaintances
725
Others
Total
4,846
118. The Child Welfare Act mandates that counseling services, a physical examination and
a psychological test for the child subject to protection and investigation into such child's
home environment shall precede the protective measures such as placement in a foster
home, a child welfare facility, or a medical facility.
2) Questions
119. How do counseling services, a physical examination and a psychological test for the
child subject to protection and investigation into such child's home environment proceed in
advance of deciding protective measures? Please provide the relevant information such as
procedure, current status, etc.
Issue 35. Children Deprived of a Family Environment
1) Current status
120. The Statistics Report on Current Status of Children Subject to Protection by Statistics
Korea in 2018 shows that, as of 2017, the number of children admitted to child welfare
facilities, 2,421, was about 1.4 times as high as those fostered, 1,700. According to the 2017
Current Status Report of Foster Care by the National Foster Care Center and the Ministry of
Health and Welfare, as of 2017, the number of fostered children was 11,975, of whom 7,942
or 66.3% were sent to live with grandparents, 3,096 or 25.9% with kinship carers, and 937 or
7.8% with non-related foster families.
Table 2. Measures taken to protect the child
Measures taken
Protect in Child Welfare
Types of protection
Residential Child Care Institution
(Orphanage)
As of 2017
1,467