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Why are the MZ generation leaving the city for the fields?

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  1. According to the '2024 Statistics on Returning to Farming, Fishing and Rural Living', released by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs and others, the number of rural-migrant households and people rose by 4.0% and 5.7% respectively.
  2. Rural migration totaled 318,658 households and 422,789 people, while farming and fishing households and people fell by 8,243 households and 10,710 people, down 20.0% and 21.7% respectively.
  3. The share of households under 40 engaged in farming reached a record high of 13.1%, and the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs plans to build an information platform for farming and rural migration.

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Why are the MZ generation leaving the city for the fields?

Read the full article (machine translation) → Original article (Korean): “도시를 떠난 MZ, 논밭으로 간 이유는?”

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