the activities of these social enterprises cover a wide range of services for example a social enterprise for the elderly s health care offers medical services through medical cooperatives in areas of higher proportion of the elder residents not only providing medical services for the elderly the enterprise functions as a vehicle for collaboration between various local actors including local government volunteer organisation and private companies partly funded by the provincial support fund and subsidies from municipalities the social enterprises are operating with their own incomes from membership fees and medical service provision though the balanced development is not new in the korean policy agenda the focus has diversified from solely economic and industrial development which in fact enhanced the national income and living conditions across the country while widened the regional disparity to include securing quality of life nationwide