[Silver Bridge] Volume 3 · Chapter 15 · Loneliness on a park bench in Guro-dong, an affliction shared by elderly people in Korea and China

Key points in 3 lines

1. Prompted by an elderly man sitting alone on a park bench in Guro-dong, the author introduced Chapter 15 of the book Silver Bridge, which examines the loneliness of older people in Korea and China.
2. He reported that in 2024, 23.7% of Koreans aged 65 and over lived alone, 3,924 people died of lonely deaths, and as of 2023 China had 120 million elderly people.
3. The author recommends that a single check-in phone call or a short video call can ease the loneliness of older people, and at the end of the article he provided a link to purchase the book.

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