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[Silver Bridge] Volume 1 · Chapter 16 · Spring Festival and Chuseok: Stories of Elderly People During the Holidays
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- This column highlights the reality of elderly people left behind in China in "empty nests" and elderly people living alone in Korea, around the Spring Festival and Chuseok.
- In China, 59.7% of elderly people were in "empty nest" households as of 2021, and in Korea, there were approximately 1,875,000 households of elderly people living alone as of 2022.
- In China, "reverse Spring Migration," in which parents travel to big cities to visit their children, is spreading, and the author presents this as a starting point for solutions.
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Read the full article (machine translation) → Original article (Korean): [실버 브릿지] 제1권 · 제16장 · 춘절과 추석, 명절 속 노인들의 이야기
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