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[Silver Bridge] Volume 3 · Chapter 1 · The Hand That Opened a Pension Passbook Reads the Household Ledgers of Korean and Chinese Elders

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  1. Placing the pension passbooks of elders from the Jongno senior center in Seoul and a village in Shandong Province, China side by side, the author compares the household finances of Korean and Chinese elders.
  2. As of July 2025, the average monthly Korean old-age pension payment was about 679,924 won, while elders in Shandong Province receive 240 yuan per month in old-age allowance.
  3. The author argues that retirement should not be judged by pension amount alone, but also by assets, healthcare, neighbors and family support, and introduces Chapter 1 of the author's book.

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[Silver Bridge] Volume 3 · Chapter 1 · The Hand That Opened a Pension Passbook Reads the Household Ledgers of Korean and Chinese Elders

Read the full article (machine translation) → Original article (Korean): [실버 브릿지] 제3권 · 제1장 · 연금 통장을 펼쳐 보이던 손, 한중 노인의 가계부를 읽다

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