ABSTRACT
Modernization, the transformation of a total society from a relatively rural way of life toward a predominantly urban way of life (Cowgill and Holmes 1972; Cowgill 1974), has seen rapid acceleration in Korea for the past forty years. This process of modernization seems not only to diminish the status of older Koreans, but ultimately lead to the occurrence of the problem of ageing in Korea; an issue that has emerged as a social problem principally since the beginning of the 1970s.
