[AI from the Island] Volume 1 · Chapter 11 · An Elderly Hand Pauses Between Cash and Card at the Market Stall

Key points in 3 lines

1. On market day at Pungmul Market in Ganghwa-eup, an elderly woman pushed the card terminal aside and offered a cash customer a 2,000 won discount, a column reports.
2. According to Ministry of the Interior and Safety statistics, as of December 2025, 28,402 (40.7%) of Ganghwa-gun's 69,698 residents were aged 65 or older.
3. The columnist writes that he hopes older people are told that technology can approach them gradually and be taken back, rather than being pulled toward it.

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