After the end of Cold War, and starting the modern society, many situations around our society have rapidly changed. With collapses of the traditional society, the young have obtained rich power and high statuses, in contrast, the old have lost their properties specially in intangibles. I will explain the reason why this circumstances happened and the effects of these results.
To begin with, the advent of modern technology in our society has turned social environments from mass production into information or computerized. The gap of technological knowledge has apparently widen more between the old and the young. According to a recent survey conducted by Korean Technology Association, illiteracies of computer under thirty five years old are only 14 percentage, but that of over forty years old are over 70 percentage. This considerable gap of ability in using modern technology has influenced on the gaining of the status and power in modern society.
Moreover, this trend that the status of old generations is getting lower made them lose their brave to improve their conditions and passion for their life with enthusiastic. Therefore the position of the aged groups has continuously fallen, and jobs that they can be hired are decreased generally, and this has affected less productivity of society. What is worse, the cost of supporting old people to their sons and daughters has rose.
In conclusion, the old have still important role of many aspects in modern society, particularly in their expert experiences that they have gone long through. However, the treats of young people toward our old generations are not enough, on comparison with the efforts that the old have attained the prosperous present. To reduce the gap between these two groups, our government should provide training skill programs for the old, and increase jobs and social positions for them. |