Family Law Reform Analysis

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Anna Kim 2015461011

1. Summarize the major points of three competing discourses on the family law reform during the early postcolonial period (1958-58): conservatives (Kim Pyongno), government (Chang Kyonggun) and Women’s group (Yi Taeyong)

There were different opinions toward family law reform during the early postcolonial period and it basically can be divided into three categories. Conservatives who desired to preserve old “traditional” values of Korean family, government officials who desired to reform family law according to changes in politics and modernization and women’s group leading by Yi Taeyong, who tried to express the opinion toward harsh family law toward women from women perspective. First are conservatives and

People believed in that statement but because of lack of knowledge about medicine. It is a very harsh argument! I think that unknowing something makes people’s life strange and hard as it happened to women and Kim’s argument. We know that baby is made together with father and mother and blood mix. I am very surprised about this Kim’s statement but understand that at that time people did not cared much about medicine and it was easy to argue in order to justify

She mentioned that some of “traditional” Korean family customs are not that traditional and originated now from Korea but China. Should Korea support traditions received abroad? She argued that social and family spaces should not be differentiated as conservatives divided. It must be equated and rules for society and family must be democratic.

Personally, I was impressed by her activities and desire to change society and make it easier for women. I respect such people who try to persuade people to split from old and traditional and go forward to new. There are always people exist who attached to the past and those who attached to present time in order to look at the future. There are many debates which way to live is more important but recently those who look forward winning and rules because the world inevitably changes and they also change, while conservative by trying to preserve what they are loosing makes them more unsecure in such