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The purpose of this study is to provide a basic data for the development of family service, by analyzing the familism values between retal and non-rental apartment residents. in metropolitan city. The survey has been conducted targeting the sample of 408 people who live in rental apartment non-rental apartment in Seoul. The major findings of this study are as follows.First, most interviewees perceived ‘parent without children’ as a category of a family. Second, most interviewees perceived ‘family on the base of consanguinity’ as a category of a family. Third, compared with non-rental apartment residents, the residents of rental apartment perceived various types of family as a category of a family. Fourth, the familism of the in the interviewees was on the base of the present family members rather than the traditional familism on the base of paternal consanguinity. But the rental apartment residents had more traditional familism. Fifth, the interviewees had a nuclear family ideology which was consanguinity rather than genetic resemblance. The rental apartment residents had more rigid perception in relation with genetic resemblance. Sixth, the results of demographical characteristics show that the younger, the more educated, the protestant, the office worker and single parent with children had more liberal the value of familism.Based on the results of the study, we suggest that the necessity of broadening of family concept and family category. The direction of family service on the based of the various value of familism of residents has to be explored.