South Korea's Demographic Dividend: Echoes of the Past or Prologue
to the Future? weaves together the compelling story of social and
demographic effects of the economic miracle in South Korea. This
exploration of social change examines the demographic dividend: a
window of time when a large percentage of a country's population is
in the working ages as a result of low fertility and declining
mortality. The working-age population benefits from a relatively
small dependent population as the size of the elderly cohort is
small and the percentage of children is decreasing. This allows the
working-age cohort to amass savings and increase productivity. But
what happens when that demographic dividend comes to a close and
the working age population must support a large elderly population?
For centuries South Koreans relied on the intergenerational
Confucian contract whereby parents supported children with the
reciprocal expectation that children would support their parents in
their older years. In South Korea's Demographic Dividend Dr.
Stephen examines what happens to families-and the larger society-
when this contract is broken. The book concludes with proposed
policies that address the maintenance of social cohesion in light
of structural changes in the personal and public spheres as a
result of Korea's unprecedented economic growth.
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