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[Silver Bridge] Volume 3 · Chapter 7 · What the Law Cannot Fill, and What the Heart Cannot Reach—Meeting Two Elderly Mothers
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- Drawing on two elderly mothers the author met in Gangbuk, Seoul, and on the outskirts of Beijing, the article highlights differences between Korea and China in systems of parental support and attitudes toward it.
- Article 974 of South Korea's Civil Act sets no support standard and carries no criminal penalty, and in a 2024 survey, 20.6% of respondents said that supporting parents is the children's responsibility.
- The author argues it is time to choose between leaving parental support to personal morality or dividing it among pensions, long-term care and community-based care, and introduces Chapter 7 of his own book.
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Read the full article (machine translation) → Original article (Korean): [실버 브릿지] 제3권 · 제7장 · 법이 못 채우는 마음, 마음이 못 미치는 법—두 노모를 만나고
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