Silver Bridge: Volume 3 · Chapter 2 · The Qingdao grandmother I met: she haggled over cabbage, but did not stint on chestnuts for her grandchild

1. The column compares thrift among older people in China and Korea, starting from the author's encounter with a grandmother at a traditional market in Qingdao who haggled over the price of cabbage but bought roasted chestnuts for her grandchild.
2. The author sees Chinese older people's savings as precautionary saving arising from gaps in the social safety net, and Korean older people's frugality as a survival strategy tied to assets locked in property and inadequate pensions.
3. The author asks readers whether parents closing their wallets is a virtue or the result of having no choice, and introduces her book that explores this theme.

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