Economic Consequences of Divorce in Korea
Title | Economic Consequences of Divorce in Korea PDF eBook |
Author | Hyunjin Kim |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 74 |
Release | 2016-11-21 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9004323724 |
Korean divorce law still adheres to fault-based divorce. According to a majority of the Supreme Court, the main reason for not admitting a no-fault policy is that the preconditions for systems for financially protecting the spouse and children after divorce have not yet been satisfied in Korea. However, there is not much time left, so we must use this golden time for preparing protective measures for divorced women and their children, through legislative efforts. Re-conceptualizing pension entitlements as the object of property division through Court rulings and legislation deserves to be highly evaluated. It is also noteworthy that a belated but wise establishment of the state agency to enforce child support obligations and its soft landing may be seen.
Divorce in South Korea
Title | Divorce in South Korea PDF eBook |
Author | Yean-Ju Lee |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Pages | 201 |
Release | 2020-04-30 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0824882954 |
It may sound logical that individualistic attitudes boost divorce. This book argues otherwise. Conservative norms of specialized gender roles serve as the root cause of marital dissolution. Those expectations that prescribe what men should do and what women should do help break down marital relationships. Data from South Korea suggest that lingering norms of gendered roles can threaten married persons’ self-identity and hence their marriages during the period of rapid structural changes. The existing literature predicting divorce does not conceptually distinguish between the process of relationship breakdown and the act of ending a marriage, implicitly but heavily focusing on the latter while obscuring the former. In contemporary societies, however, the social and economic cost of divorce is sufficiently low—that is, stigma against divorce is minimal and economic survival after divorce is a nonissue—and leaving a marriage is no longer dictated by one’s being liberal or conservative or any particular characteristics. Thus, the right question to ask is not who leaves a marriage but why a marriage goes sour to begin with. In Korea, a majority of divorces occur through mutual consent of the two spouses without any court procedure, but when one spouse files for divorce, the fault-based divorce litigation rules require the court to lay out the entire chronicle of relevant events occurring up to the legal action, often with the help of court investigators. As such, court rulings provide glimpses into the entire marital dynamics, including verbatim exchanges between the spouses. Lee argues that the typical process of relationship breakdown is related to married persons’ daily practices of verifying their gendered role identity.
Divorces of Marriage Immigrants in South Korea
Title | Divorces of Marriage Immigrants in South Korea PDF eBook |
Author | Sanghee Kim |
Publisher | |
Pages | 22 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The divorce system in Korea
Title | The divorce system in Korea PDF eBook |
Author | T'ae-yŏng Yi |
Publisher | |
Pages | 347 |
Release | 1957 |
Genre | Divorce |
ISBN |
Law Concerning Marriage and Divorce (Korea)
Title | Law Concerning Marriage and Divorce (Korea) PDF eBook |
Author | Yonghan Kim |
Publisher | |
Pages | 50 |
Release | 1976 |
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ISBN |
The Study of Current Divorce Situation in Korea
Title | The Study of Current Divorce Situation in Korea PDF eBook |
Author | Youn Hee Lee |
Publisher | |
Pages | 494 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Divorce |
ISBN |
Friend
Title | Friend PDF eBook |
Author | Paek Nam-nyong |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 179 |
Release | 2020-05-05 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0231551401 |
Paek Nam-nyong’s Friend is a tale of marital intrigue, abuse, and divorce in North Korea. A woman in her thirties comes to a courthouse petitioning for a divorce. As the judge who hears her statement begins to investigate the case, the story unfolds into a broader consideration of love and marriage. The novel delves into its protagonists’ past, describing how the couple first fell in love and then how their marriage deteriorated over the years. It chronicles the toll their acrimony takes on their son and their careers alongside the story of the judge’s own marital troubles. A best-seller in North Korea, where Paek continues to live and write, Friend illuminates a side of life in the DPRK that Western readers have never before encountered. Far from being a propagandistic screed in praise of the Great Leader, Friend describes the lives of people who struggle with everyday problems such as marital woes and workplace conflicts. Instead of socialist-realist stock figures, Paek depicts complex characters who wrestle with universal questions of individual identity, the split between public and private selves, the unpredictability of existence, and the never-ending labor of maintaining a relationship. This groundbreaking translation of one of North Korea’s most popular writers offers English-language readers a page-turner full of psychological tension as well as a revealing portrait of a society that is typically seen as closed to the outside world.