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Silver Bridge [Volume 1 · Chapter 15]: Empty-Nest Elders — How Korea and China Differ
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- A column in which the author compares China's empty-nest elderly with the reality of elderly people living alone in Korea, examining why later life differs between the two countries.
- The author reports that, according to a 2024 survey, more than 60% of Chinese people aged 60 and over are empty-nest elderly, while 23.6% of Korean seniors live alone.
- The author notes that lonely deaths in Korea rose 7.2% in 2024 to 3,924, and argues that this is a problem society as a whole must work together to solve.
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Read the full article (machine translation) → Original article (Korean): [실버 브릿지] 제1권 · 제15장 · 빈둥지 노인, 한국과 중국의 다른 모습
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