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[Silver Bridge] Volume 2 · Chapter 3 · A 3-pyeong room, 300,000 won a month — The elderly I met in a gosiwon

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  1. In a column, the reporter describes the housing reality of elderly people living in gosiwons and small rooms, comparing how Korea and China are responding to elderly housing.
  2. 72-year-old Mr. Kim pays 280,000 won of his 334,810 won basic pension in gosiwon rent, and the article reports that Korea's elderly income poverty rate is 39.7%.
  3. The reporter sees China's 9073 elderly care system and priority allocation of public rental housing as models worth considering, and asks readers to look out for their elderly neighbors.

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[Silver Bridge] Volume 2 · Chapter 3 · A 3-pyeong room, 300,000 won a month — The elderly I met in a gosiwon

Read the full article (machine translation) → Original article (Korean): [실버 브릿지] 제2권 · 제3장 · 3평 방, 30만 원 월세 — 제가 만난 고시원의 노년

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