| Abstrakt: |
The Public Official Election Act of 2019 of Republic of Korea was revised to allow 18-year-olds to participate in politics. However, lowering the voting age is supported with a variety of efforts at the legislative, institutional, and educational levels to encourage adolescents to participate in politics. The purpose of this study is to look at the current condition and system of political involvement among Finnish adolescents in Nordic countries, with implications for Korea. First, Finland has a system that enables various political and social participation for children and adolescents, such as children's council, adolescent committee, adolescent council, adolescent election, party adolescent organization, and resident initiative. Second, the Finnish government actively executes adolescent policies that are based on systematic laws, systems, and policy systems, and it establishes and implements national adolescent activities and policy programs at the ministry level every four years. Third, Finnish school education provides opportunities to experience mock adolescent councils in connection with adolescent councils, and through this, practical education on political and social participation is provided in the the curriculum. In terms of legislative and institutional aspects, Korea, like Finland, has children, adolescent councils, adolescent participation committees, and adolescent special meetings. However, proper and objective awareness of the effectiveness and importance of actual adolescent activities, as well as a concrete and diversified practical approach, are required. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
