Pages 87-102 – Dorota Szawarska – ‘Love or Reason – Or Why Do Elderly Sakhalin Korean Repatriates Carry on Supporting their Adult Children Remaining on Sakhalin?’

This article is about love, help and compassion. It provides an account of intergenerational support that goes against the widely publicised and encouraged practice and understanding of filial piety (Sung Kyu-taik, 2005); it goes against the image of the elderly as a dependent, passive generation waiting to be helped; and finally it calls for a wider approach to the problem of inter-generational ...