According to Kim Jun-hee, filial piety in this context takes the form of extreme restriction in the name of "proper behavior." For sons, proper behavior constitutes taking a wife and producing sons in order to perpetuate the family name. For daughters, this meant that their family obligations shifted upon marriage from the original home to the husband's family. As such, the woman was seen as a vessel for producing an heir, and little more. Much of a woman's honor was also inherent in her ability to bear healthy sons. So extreme was this directive in the past, that men were allowed to take a second or third wife, or even to adopt a male family member, for the purpose of perpetuating the family name.
While filial piety is still seen as extremely important in the Korean culture, Jun-hee cites modern forces such as busy schedules, industrialization and globalization ash shaping the form this phenomenon takes today. Thus, while it has not changed as a basic Korean virtue, the specific manifestation of filial piety in the culture has. Filial devotion in terms of funerary rites, for example, has been altered to coincide with the schedule demands of young, modern Koreans. Furthermore, the importance placed upon the male heir is no longer of such extreme importance that a second or third wife is allowed, or that adoption is preferred to having a family with only daughters. Indeed, according to Jun-hee, modern Koreans are reported to prefer daughters to sons.
It therefore appears that, in Korean culture, filial piety has evolved to match the demands of modern living. As such, it is not as restrictive a force in this culture as it often is in other Asian cultures. Instead, the tradition appears to have survived by evolving to include a more loving, reciprocal, and also tolerant relationship between parents and children. The same ideal is portrayed by Hui's Shanghai Baby. In Hui's book, however, the problem is that the restrictions imposed by filial piety results in a culture of rebellion and self-destructive promiscuity. According to Jun-hee's explanation of the Korean paradigm, in contrast, the ability of the filial piety...
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