In recent years, South Korea's cultural industry has developed quite well, especially the cultural output of the Korean Wave, the long legs of the TV drama Oba or idol group so that a lot of fans love the house, and even to South Korea are fascinated, thinking that must go to travel a bit. But in fact, South Korea in recent years has encountered a lot of trouble, and not as rosy and beautiful as in Korean drama.
According to a statistical report last year, South Korea has become a developed country in Asia, the suicide rate of the first high countries, the data pointed out that every million Koreans, there are nearly 300 people will commit suicide, in addition to more than half of the young people because of the pressure of school or career suicide ideas, more surprising is that 45% of the suicide crowd, actually is 60 years old or older. In our general cognition, the elderly in retirement is to enjoy their old age, according to reason the pressure of life is certainly not so big, like most of the elderly in our country, nothing to sneak around, square dancing, comfortable to enjoy their old age, why would still think of suicide?
To pursue to the source, then, or because of ? poverty? That means nearly half of the elderly in Korean society, are in poverty. So why has it come to this? In fact, a few decades ago, Korean social thinking is very similar to China, that is? expect your son to become a dragon and your daughter to become a phoenix? and the idea of "raising children for the sake of the elderly" was also very similar to that of China. Raising children for old age? In order to raise their children to be successful, parents would give all they had, and when the children grew up, they had to fulfill their filial duties and take care of their aging parents. So the social security welfare system is not really needed in Korea, and there are not many nursing homes.
But now most young Koreans, one by one, are flocking to the center cities in an already competitive environment? struggling to survive?
But now most young Koreans are flocking to the central cities one by one to survive in an already competitive environment, while at the same time the country's high prices, housing and car loans are emptying every penny out of these young people's pockets, and they are taking out loans to spend money and immerse themselves in a life of glamor and inexorability, while their parents are left to live out their twilight years in poverty in the remote and empty countryside.
In the face of life's constraints, these elderly people can only ? re-enter the workforce?
While the legal retirement age in South Korea is sixty, poor elderly people are forced by life to work after retirement, but because of age, white-collar and other things certainly can not compete with young people, so most of the elderly are engaged in low-paying, labor-intensive work, which are mostly young people do not like to engage in the drudgery of work, such as janitorial work, gasoline, or courier. Even the elderly who belonged to the middle class before retirement can do nothing but put down their decency and dignity in the face of the social status quo.
No wonder that when I traveled in South Korea before, I found out that most cab drivers, couriers or restaurant waiters are basically middle-aged and old people, which is the current social phenomenon in South Korea. Some people may want to ask, that children do not have enough ability to support their parents, then Korea does not have a pension system? I heard my familiar Korean friends say that because Korean society has always been upholding a ? The concept of raising children for old age? Because Korean society has all along been upholding the concept of "raising children for old age", it does not have sufficient pension reserves and has not actively promoted the pension system. In the face of the situation before us, the local government was at a loss as to what to do. Although the South Korean government also has a relatively complete set of public **** pension system, but the premise is that if the old man's son or daughter has a regular job, then it is regarded as the ability to support the elderly, do not pay pensions. And for those who can receive a pension, the meager amount actually makes it difficult to support living expenses.
In all aspects of the pressure, the situation of the elderly in South Korea will face today's situation, but South Korea's aging but still continue to be serious, according to the current development trend, it is estimated that the future will only be more bleak. I traveled in South Korea, a very deep impression is a friend in and cab driver's conversation content, afterward, my friend and I said, she and the driver talked about the work, the elderly driver told her: his life goal is to work until the body can not afford to do so, he is in order to live the life of a generation of people, do not dare to rest down! From this, we can see that most elderly people in South Korea cannot live comfortably in their twilight years. What do you think about this? Feel free to leave your unique views in the comments section.