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[Silver Bridge] Volume 3 · Chapter 6 · Grandma's Shopping Basket: The Elderly of Two Nations Opened by Fingertips
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- This column looks at changing senior consumption in Korea and China through the online shopping of elderly women the author met in Gangnam, Seoul, and in Beijing.
- Citing data from Statistics Korea, the author reports that in 2025 people aged 65 and over made up 20.3% of the population, about 10.5 million people.
- The author also raises risks such as cyber fraud and introduces Chapter 6 of his book "Silver Bridge: Don gwa Gwangye".
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