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Establishment and Membership Composition: The Korean Filial Piety Association was founded in response to the need for an intellectual community dedicated to researching filial piety, which was sparked by the first Filial Piety Academic Conference in 1998. In November 2001, the first president (Choi Sung-kyu, Dean of Seongsan Filial Piety Graduate University) was elected, marking the commencement of significant academic activities. The membership comprises over 620 members, including current and former professors from humanities, social sciences, and education, active primary, middle, and high school teachers, religious clergy, and social activists who have been interested and engaged in filial piety and character education.

Background and Purpose of Establishment: It's closely related to the Korean context. Encountering the collapse of ethics, family breakdown, and challenging educational environments, there was a search for and emphasis on the morality of family love, highly regarded as a traditional Korean value, as an alternative. Filial piety, as a universal language, has historically garnered interest globally in religion, philosophy, ethics, and politics. The Korean Filial Piety Association is an intellectual community aimed at academically establishing filial piety. It focuses on setting the academic identity of filial piety studies, intellectual exchanges based on filial piety studies, and attention to and alternatives for common human issues in education, society, and culture.

Major Activities of the Association: The association prioritizes establishing an academic foundation for filial piety research. The primary endeavors include constructing a theoretical framework for researching and teaching filial piety, developing educational materials, creating a theoretical structure to culturalize filial piety, and establishing an academic consensus that resonates socially.

Direction of Specialization in Filial Piety Studies: The direction the Korean Filial Piety Association aspires to is to present filial piety that anyone, regardless of gender, age, whether they're Korean or from the wider world, can easily access and practice, through an academic systematization of filial piety. This is aimed at forming fundamental values for healthy families and sound citizens of society. Efforts to establish interdisciplinary research and theoretical foundations, along with the formation of an intellectual community, are critical roles for the association.

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