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[Silver Bridge] Volume 1 · Chapter 6 · Square Dancing and the Bench: Two Faces of Life After Retirement
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- The author contrasts seniors dancing in a park square in China with a lone elderly man sitting on a bench in a city center in Korea, highlighting the difference in life after retirement.
- The author writes that 20.1% of Korea's population is aged 65 or older and the elderly poverty rate is 39.8%, nearly three times the OECD average, and that China's square dancing population is estimated at over 100 million.
- This column introduces Chapter 6 of the author's book "Silver Bridge: Du Nara-ui Neulgeomgam" and invites readers to visit the book's detail page.
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Read the full article (machine translation) → Original article (Korean): [실버 브릿지] 제1권 · 제6장 · 광장무와 벤치: 은퇴 후 삶의 두 얼굴
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