Baby Boomer Women\u27s Divorces in Korea

Since the latter half of 1990s, as Korea had suffered from the recession, divorce rate involving baby boom generation has increased and reached high level. As the causes of this change, individualism and egalitarianism became to be seen as reasons of divorce irrespective of age and generation. But this paper argues that Korean baby boomer women were traditionalists and had their original reasons of getting divorces. These women chose divorce mainly for the sake of survival of their family members at the turn of the century and for the sake of their grown-up children in the late 2000s. In conclusion, this paper insists that baby boomer women\u27s divorces were not only for themselves.論文Paper