[Silver Bridge] Volume 1 · Chapter 16 · Spring Festival and Chuseok: Stories of Elderly People During the Holidays

1. This column highlights the reality of elderly people left behind in China in "empty nests" and elderly people living alone in Korea, around the Spring Festival and Chuseok.
2. In China, 59.7% of elderly people were in "empty nest" households as of 2021, and in Korea, there were approximately 1,875,000 households of elderly people living alone as of 2022.
3. In China, "reverse Spring Migration," in which parents travel to big cities to visit their children, is spreading, and the author presents this as a starting point for solutions.

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