Kyonghee BAIK has been a professor of Rehabilitation Counseling at Hanshin University since 2001. After graduating from Yonsei University in Sociology, he received a master’s degree in Rehabilitation Counseling from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. His study focus has been on welfare for the disabled and vocational rehabilitation. He conducted residential research on the independence of disabled people, and has about 17 years of field experience, especially in relation to joint-living families.