List of Giving Data, Produced in Korea

        A total of nine statistical data is related to giving in Korea. Between those, the National Tax Statistical Yearbook of the National Tax Service provides a total donation amount.
        The most cited donation participation rate and the average donation amount are reported through Giving Korea and Social Survey. In addition, the National Survey of Tax and Benefit and Korea Welfare Panel Study do the national survey. 
        Giving behavior and attitudes surveys, besides donation participation rate and the donation amount, are mainly covered in Giving Korea and Social Survey.

9 Giving Databases in South Korea

 

Database

Institution

Year of Survey
Launched

Year of Recent
Survey

National
Survey

Giving Korea

Center on Philanthropy, The Beautiful
Foundation

2001

2019

Social Survey

National Tax Service

2006

2019

Korean Longitudinal Survey of Women and
Families (KLoWF)*

Korean Women’s Development Institute

2006

2019

Korea Welfare Panel Study

Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA)

2007

2011

National Survey of Tax and Benefit (NaSTaB)

Korea Institute of Public Finance

2008

2019

Local
Survey

Seoul Survey

Smart City Policy Bureau, Seoul
Metropolitan Government

2005

2020

Seoul Welfare Panel Survey*

Seoul Welfare Foundation

2008

2010

Seoul Welfare Survey

The Seoul Institute

2015

2019

National
Tax
Service
Data

National Tax Statistical Yearbook

National Tax Service

1967

2020

Note: * No longer surveyed.


<Summary of 7 Giving Databases>

        Donation participation rate, average amount of donation, total amount of donation, and volunteering participation rate of each database in its reference year are as follows:

 

Giving Korea

Korea Welfare
Panel Study

National
Survey of
Tax and
Benefit
(NaSTaB)

Social Survey

Seoul Welfare Survey

Seoul Survey

National Tax
Statistical
Yearbook

Survey Unit

Individual

Household

Household

Household

Household

Household

Survey Area

Nationwide

Nationwide

Nationwide

Nationwide

Seoul

Seoul

Nationwide

Sample Size
(Reference Year)

2,011
(2019)

4,124
(2019)

4,816
(2018)

18,676
(2021)

3,000
(2019)

20,000
(2020)

Donation
Participation
Rate

46.5%

12.2%

35.9%

21.6%

17.4%

37.1%

Average Amount of Donation

₩264,000

₩461,000

₩164,000

₩603,000

₩904,000

Total Amount of
Donation

\14.4 Trillion
(2020)

Volunteering
Participation
Rate

32.3%

13.7%

16.1%

10.0%

13.6%

Extracted from  [기획연구 2020-3] 한국의 나눔 행동과 태도 측정 : 방법론적 고찰 (Korean)

<Reference (Korean)>

  • Giving Korea 2020. https://research.beautifulfund.org/blog/2020/12/21/givigkorea2020/
  • Korea Welfare Panel Study. https://www.koweps.re.kr:442/eng/main.do
  • Korean Longitudinal Survey of Women and Families. https://klowf.kwdi.re.kr/portal/eng/mainPage.do?
  • Seoul Welfare Panel Survey. https://wish.welfare.seoul.kr/swflmsfront/board/boardr.do?bmno=10015&bno=1711&pno=10007&ppno=&opno=& (Korean)
  • National Survey of Tax and Benefit (NaSTaB). https://www.kipf.re.kr/bbs/panel_report_DataReport.do (Korean)
  • Social Survey. National Tax Service (2021)  
    Kosis – Location : Society > Social Survey > Social Participation > 2009~ > Population of Cash Donations (Contributor) (for the last 12 months, Multiple Response, 13 years old and over), Amount of Cash Donations (for the last 12 months, Multiple Response, 13 years old and over) https://kosis.kr/eng/
    Donation Participation Rate : https://www.kostat.go.kr/portal/korea/kor_nw/1/6/3/index.board (Korean)
  • Seoul Welfare Survey. Seoul Research Data Service http://data.si.re.kr (Korean)
  • Seoul Survey. 
    Seoul Research Data Service http://data.si.re.kr (Korean)
    Seoul Giving Experience and Giving Vehicle Statistics https://data.seoul.go.kr/dataList/286/S/2/datasetView.do?tab=S# (Korean)
  • National Tax Service (2019). National Tax Statistical Yearbook. https://tasis.nts.go.kr/websquare/websquare.html?w2xPath=/cm/index.xml(Korean)
    Total donation amount=Below 1)+2)+3)+4) 

1) Corporate Donation
2) Individual Donation (General Income Tax)
3) Individual Donation (Tax Deduction Amount from Donation)
4) Individual Donation (Tax Deduction Amount from Income)