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[Silver Bridge] Volume 5 · Chapter 12 · The day empty rooms and empty wallets met, I saw young people and the elderly eating together

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  1. In a column, the author introduced an intergenerational co-living model aimed at solving both youth housing shortages and elderly loneliness in Korea and China.
  2. Seoul is running room-sharing in 9 districts, where university students are given a spare room in an elderly person's home with no deposit, paying 200,000 won or less per month.
  3. Beijing requires young people to provide at least 20 hours of non-medical care per month and offers a room in an elderly care facility for 300 to 500 yuan per month, and the author also added a promotion for his book.

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[Silver Bridge] Volume 5 · Chapter 12 · The day empty rooms and empty wallets met, I saw young people and the elderly eating together

Read the full article (machine translation) → Original article (Korean): [银色桥梁] 第5卷 · 第12章 · 빈방과 빈 지갑이 만나던 날, 나는 청년과 노인이 함께 밥을 먹는 모습을 보았다

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