LOVE, DEBT, FILIAL PIETY: HEE GYUNG NOH ON KOREAN INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS WHEN A MOTHER IS DYING

Authors: ROSENBLATT P.C.1; YANG S.2

Source: Journal of Loss and Trauma, Volume 9, Number 2, April-June 2004 , pp. 167-180(14)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

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Abstract:

Based on our translation of a best-selling Korean novel, we look at the relationship between a mother and her adult children when the mother in a Korean family is terminally ill. In Korean families, filial piety is changing, but there is still a core of intergenerational obligation. The mother is self-sacrificing, and children are expected to do well in school, get a good job, marry, and honor their parents with appreciation and appropriate assistance. In the novel, The Most Beautiful Farewell, the goodbyes between mother and children revolve around expressions of filial standards, regrets for standards not yet met, efforts to meet standards in the present, and promises to meet standards in the future.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/15325020490423442

Affiliations: 1: Department of Family Social Science, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA 2: Human Ecology Institute, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

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