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 |