Home Managerial Abilities of Current Korean Housewives

-A Case in an Area of the Kyeng Gi District-

Abstract

The researcher previously proposed an idea based on the investigations which were tested the home managerial abilities of the present Japanese housewives (N. Sakai, 1966, 1988). This paper applies the same method as the previous works to 210 housewives who reside in Korea.
The followings are the major findings :
1) The Korean housewives are better than the Japanese housewives on the overall home managerial ability.
2) So far as the activities are concerned, the Korean housewives co-ordinate and control well, while they have poor abilities to plan and to evaluate their management. This tendency is the same as the Japanese housewives.
3) The Korean housewives skillfully manage such resources as residence, family love, the budget and assets, and their time, and they think residence more important than foods as compared with the Japanese housewives, but they are not good at managing Public facilities and home equipments : this is the same tendency as the Japanese housewives.