Korean Educational Development Institute(KEDI)

Research for a strategy to improve education: information systems for intergenerational integration (Ⅰ)

Korean society has experienced rapid social change through compressed economic growth. Especially since the financial crisis, the IMF the polarization of wealth has become more intense and conflict and confrontation has emerged as a serious social problem. Since the advent of the knowledge society and information, the rapid progression of aging, the problem of youth unemployment and the baby boomers has emerged as a national issue, the problem of generational conflict becomes an important social issue. The base of the problem is that the issue of conflict between generations, especially witnessed in recent years has been mainly driven side not ideological and emotional but reveals aspects of discord competing interests for limited social resources between generations, distribution and control of the limited opportunities. At this point of view, unlike current approaches to the production of a conflict that target seniors who are directly involved, all generational measures including the younger generation must be taken. That is to say, taking into account their life cycle in the time series to diagnose the current situation in terms of coexistence between groups in the section, it must be prepared on how to deal with conflict between generations.