Size of cash and near-cash transfer programmes (unemployment benefits, means-tested assistance, universal child benefits). Architecturally distinct from forced-saving schemes — see condition welfare_architecture.
Rule of law as institutional substrate — contract enforcement, judicial independence, equal treatment before the law. Upstream of most other axes.
National Basic Livelihood Security Act (국민기초생활보장법) passed 7 September 1999, effective 1 October 2000. Replaced earlier Livelihood Protection Act (1961) that limited support to elderly, disabled, and children. NBLSA extended statutory right to minimum livelihood guarantee to all citizens below the poverty line (minimum cost of living standard), irrespective of demographic category, subject to work-readiness assessment. First statutory rights-based poverty floor in Korean history. Cash transfers plus housing, medical, and education supplements. Coverage ~1.5m recipients initially; ~1.8m by 2020. Designed by welfare-academia network including future Roh-era welfare architects.
Per invariant 3, reforms are scored by what they did on each channel-separated axis, not by the party that enacted them. This fingerprint is how the policy-match engine finds historical analogues.
Explicit links are curated by the author. Inferred links are hypotheses in the library that test the same axes this policy moved — the framework's answer to "what does the data say about a policy like this?".
Ranked by axis-fingerprint overlap with this policy. Direction match bolded — those are the closest historical analogues. Shape of the match is what drives policy-outcome comparison, not the country or party label.