1. GENERATIONAL GAP IN SOUTH KOREA
KOREAN POLITICS - AUGUSTIN PASQUINI
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2. GENERATION GAP?
 The generation gap is a
term popularized in Western
countries during the 1960s
 Refers to differences
between people of younger
generations and their elders
 First used to describe for the
“Beatles/Stones generation”
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3. IN KOREA
 South Korea started a massive
political, economic, and social shift
since it was liberated from Japan at
end of World War II
 It had to deal with rediscovering its
own identity while working to shape
a new one for the future
 It resulted in a heavy contrast
between the old and young, and
rural and urban
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4. THE “Y GENERATION”
 “Y” stands for "Young"
 Workers born in the 80s and able to master foreign
languages
 Born after the end of the South Korean industrialization
 Single child, accustomed to Internet uses, went for trips
abroad, etc.
 Seemed to be not much loyal to a company?
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5. THE “P GENERATION”
 “Peace Generation” or “Prosperity
Generation”
 Never known what it was like fighting in
the war or being poor under military
rule
 Basic anti-Americanism feeling, and a
non-consciousness of the North Korean
threat
 As inclined to disbelieve their own
political leaders as to blame North
Korea
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6. THE “A GENERATION”
 The “Angry Generation”
 Angry with politic, politics, and political turbulences
 Tired of the ideological warfare in Korean society between
the left and the right
 Angry at the prejudice of Korean society against others,
foreigners, strangers and fellow citizens from other
provinces
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7. SILENT GENERATION
 The people that were born
soon after the liberation in
1945
 They experienced dramatic
social turmoil and political ups
and downs
 Supposedly hard working
people
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8. CONCLUSION
 Many ways to qualify both
rising and aging generations
 “Korea seems to have
endured as much in the past
30 years as it did in the
previous 1000”
 Will old Korean values
remain?
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9. THANKS ALL!
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