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Corporate Pension
Traditionally, Korea had a voluntary retirement allowance scheme which began in 1953. The retirement allowance is given in the form of one lump-sum payment, which is equivalent to one month of the base salary for any employee who has worked for more than one year. However, due to the low employment tenure in Korea, many workers receive retirement allowance before they retire. Thus, as it is traditionally intended to serve in the absence of unemployment insurance, the allowance did not provide employees with enough benefit and security needed for retirement. To ensure benefits and protection the allowance system fails to provide, the government introduced the retirement pension in 2005, also known as the corporate pension. The corporate pension system provides two forms of benefits in addition to the traditional voluntary personal pension saving account: the defined benefit and defined contribution plans. Pay-outs from the two new plans are provided either as a lump-sum retirement pay or as an annuity. As for 2009, private pension spending in percentage of GDP is 7.9 percent, equivalent to 10.3 trillion won. By the end of 2009, 1.723 million workers were already enrolled in the plan. By 2011, 2.7 million, or 30 per cent of the regular workers are enrolled and protected. In 2016, the benefit coverage has expanded with 5.4 million workers enrolled in the scheme, equivalent to 15 per cent of the total working-age population (ages 15 to 64).

However, the government is facing a budgetary constrain due to the aging population. Increase life expectancy combine with low fertility rate will drive up the old-age dependency ratio in Korea, "from 15 per cent in 2010 to 71 per cent in 2050." At the same time, the country is making effort to privatize its pension system, as other developed Western countries have done. Korea has lowered its replacement rate for public pension to 50 percent in 2008, upon introducing the Basic Old-Age Pension, and the reduction is scheduled to lower even further to 40 percent by 2028. The reform on the National Pension in 2007 did not guarantee long term financial solvency, but exacerbated the need for a coverage expansion and outcry from social organizations. This trend, combined with the post-2008 gloomy social condition, resulted in a strong blow of the "Wind of Free Welfare" in Korean evident in the 2012 presidential election of Park Geun-Hye. However, the budgetary constraint forced the Park government to scale down on its promises to increase spending without increasing tax.

To fill the gap between budgetary constraint and the need for increase social support for the elders, the government needs to expand the coverage of corporate pension and strengthen its position as the second pillar in the income security system. Data from 2007 shows that Korea has a public pension gross replacement rate of just over 40 per cent, while private pension assets in percent of GDP is less than 5 percent, indicating large room for improvement. As for 2016, less than 2 per cent of the population enrolled in the corporate pension system is receiving payment as an annuity.

2012 and Prior
On September 16, 2005, the FAA released memorandum AFS-400 UAS Policy 05-01 as a guideline to the usage of UAS in the U.S. National Airspace System (NAS). On February 6, 2007, the FAA released a policy document indicating that UAVs are recognized by the definition of aircraft. Soon followed on February 13, a Policy Statement concerning the operation of drones was issued and clarified the distinction between a UAV and a model aircraft.

2013 - 2015
On November 18, 2014, regarding the FAA v. Piker case, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) upheld FAA's authority over enforcement of the operation of UAS or model aircraft by affirming that since "unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) meet the legal definition of 'aircraft'," the operation of which are thus subject to civil penalties.

2015 - Present
In addition, during the summer of the same year, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Office of the Secretary of Transportation (OST), Department of Transportation (DOT) released Rule Part 107, finalizing the regulation regarding the use of commercial UAS.

On May 9, 2018, the U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao announced the selection of local governments from 10 states to participate in the UAS Integration Pilot Program. The City of San Diego is one of the participant selected from California with a primary project goal focusing on commercial delivery and border protection.