The major issue for the Welfare State since 1980 is how to relate
welfare and labor. This lead to supplying jobs to socially disadvantaged
class and making social enterprise entrusting social service to private
corporation. There are many different types of social enterprises which
vary according to the situation and the purpose that each country deals
with. For this reason, it is hard to define the dictionary term of social
enterprise in a simple sentence. That explains why European countries have
focused on the characteristic of social enterprise
To get precise recognition of social enterprise, this paper analyzes
research papers and references based on the European countries which
social enterprise first founded. Main characteristics of each different
European social enterprise in each category are researched, comparing
EMES based on the social and economic category. The paper also analyzes
what the standard suggested by EMES implies. With all these research, the
paper proposes the subject and development of Korean social enterprise.