Anchor: A new report finds that South Koreans’ view about supporting their parents has greatly shifted in some ten years time. The report by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs found that in 2014, only some 32 percent of respondents believed that parents should be supported by their children, marking quite a drop compared to the nearly 90 percent posted in 1998. 
Our Bae Joo-yon has more on the latest report.
 
Report: The Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs has issued a report analyzing the shift in South Koreans' perspective about supporting their parents.

In the report based on results of the social survey by Statistics Korea, the institute found that in 1998, 90 percent of the surveyed believed that it is a family’s responsibility to support their parents. However, in 2014, that percentage fell sharply to 32 percent.
 
Meanwhile, 52 percent of respondents surveyed in 2014 said the responsibility is on society to provide such support, far higher than the two percent posted in 1998.
 
On which family members should be responsible for supporting parents, 22 percent in 1998 said the eldest son while in 2014, only two percent gave the same answer.
 
Fifteen percent of respondents in 1998 said all children should be responsible for supporting their parents while 24 percent shared the view in 2014.
 
The report also found that the level of closeness between parents and children saw a great change over the past several years.
 
Seventy-four percent of respondents in 1998 said they talk to their parents over the phone one or two times a week. The proportion rose to 84 percent in 2011 before slipping to 73 percent in 2014.
 
The institute said the rise in one-person households and family breakups led to the drastic shift about supporting parents.
 
The institute assessed that the view about supporting parents changed as familism based on the traditional idea of filial piety lost strength.
 
The institute also said there is a need for a system in which the state assumes economic responsibility for supporting parents while families assume the emotional responsibility.
Bae Joo-yon, KBS World Radio News.