Challenge of the Aging Society and a New Vision for the Filial Piety-The Welfare Paradigm of Integrated Generations beyond the Blood Relations-

This study presents a new vision for the welfare of the elderly in the Korean society through a novel alternative solution to the problems of the old family supported welfare system for the elderly based on the traditional concept of the filial piety, being surfaced in the face of the changing life style of the people in today’s industrialized, urban Korean society.
This is also to provide the basic arguments necessary to create in the long run an innovative model for a new elderly welfare system cooperatively operated by the combined resources of the family, the business, the state, and the local society, overcoming the limitation of the old family based support of the elderly still prevalent in Korea today.
The present study thus is an inquiry into a fresh alternative approach to the problem of producing a promising alternative elderly support system in Korea through a creative alliance of the family, the business, the government, and the local society utilizing their available resources.