[Silver Bridge] Volume 1 · Chapter 16 · Spring Festival and Chuseok: The Loneliness of the Elderly During Holidays

1. In his ongoing column, the author compares Korea's Chuseok with China's Spring Festival and highlights the loneliness of elderly people left alone during the holidays.
2. Wang Chunshi, who lives in Jilin Province, travels 21 hours by train every Spring Festival to visit her daughter in Suzhou, and 59.7% of China's elderly are empty-nest seniors (as of 2021).
3. The author notes that there are about 1,875,000 elderly single-person households in Korea (as of 2022), and cites the Lonely Death Prevention Act, care networks, and the promotion of returning to one's hometown.

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