This study examines the delivery system of after school child care in Korea where demands for after school child care rise sharply due to the increase of married women’s labor force participation, and the dissolution of the family. In articular, it investigates the legal measures, budgets, the structure of the delivery system, and the recipients of the services. It aims
to detect whether the after school child care delivery system overly wastes resources, because similar services are rovided by the several ministries simultaneously. Also by comparing four OECD countries’ systems, it drew important policy implications from it. This study suggests that we need to have the coordinating system which relates various after schools systematically, clarify each school’s roles in order not to provide the overlapped services in different schools
and to minimize complications in utilizing services, enact an individual after school child care service act, and set up a new administrative unit which is solely in charge of after school child care services.
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