The Goryeo Dynasty which placed the foremost value upon caregiving for the elderly under the ideal of ruling the world with filial piety established an all-encompassing system to support the elderly and the sick through the provision of caregivers. In addition, they managed to include all the elderly from nobles to ordinary citizens in this system. That is well seen in the way of providing caregivers. The Goryeo Dynasty which had only provided caregivers for over 80-year-old people expanded its scope of support up to the elderly in their 60s at the end of the dynasty.
The contents of benefits were, of course, decided by their social status. Requisition of labor only was exempted from the state for general public but various benefits were offered for bureaucrats. In other words, the Goryeo Dynasty gave careful consideration for public officials not to be disadvantaged by the issue of providing care for the elderly. That is, a leave of absence of 200 days was firstly given to take care of the elderly without worrying about deprivation of official post. They were still paid half of their salary not to suffer much economic troubles as though they were forced to quit their post when exceeding the time limit.
On the other hand, the system of taking care of the elderly in Goryeo Dynasty had a strong ideology enough to suspend even some period of military service that was the foundation of the state. The execution of punishment was deferred for a while in presence of the ideology of caregiving the elderly. Nevertheless, consideration for exempt from military service was dealt with passively. It was not until March of the 35th year of the King Munjong when butcher class came to reap the benefit of the exemption from military that it was reluctantly allowed only for the only son.