Childhood

Youth

Born between 1955-1963

1965-1973

School days

1970’s-1990’s

Employment and marriage

(5-year economic development plans in the 1960’s-1990’s)

1960’s-1970’s

Extended family society → nuclearization

1980’s-1990’s

Affluence and downturn of Korean economy

Period of absolute poverty after Korean War

The first group of mass education, Incorporation into cities for education

1970’s

1980’s

1990’s

Educated by parents in Confucian vestiges and Japanese colonial vestiges culture

The first generation of competition to enter college

Yushin era

Demands for political freedom and rights

Advance into society and economic affluence

Massive unemployment due to IMF financial crisis

Democratic aspirations

Period of economic boom

The greatest victims of restructuring and lay-off