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[Silver Bridge] Volume 3 · Chapter 10 · The 63-year-old in the armband, and why Wang Xiuqin smiled
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- This essay-style column compares how older people participate in China and Korea, through the time-bank volunteer work of 63-year-old Wang Xiuqin, whom the author met in Nanjing.
- It reports that 53.58 million older volunteers were registered in China as of September 2025, and that the volunteer participation rate among people aged 65 and over in Korea was 7.4%.
- The author argues that older people should be seen as having something to give, not only as recipients of care, and introduces Chapter 10 of his book "Silver Bridge: Don gwa Gwangye".
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Read the full article (machine translation) → Original article (Korean): [실버 브릿지] 제3권 · 제10장 · 완장을 찬 예순셋, 왕슈친 할머니가 웃던 이유
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