According to a statistical report last year, South Korea has become the country with the highest suicide rate among developed countries in Asia. The data shows that nearly 300 people will commit suicide per/kloc-0.0 million Koreans. More than half of the young people have suicidal thoughts because of excessive academic or professional pressure. What is even more surprising is that 45% of the suicides are elderly people over 60 years old. In our general understanding, the elderly enjoy their old age after retirement. According to the truth, the pressure of life is definitely not that great. Just like most elderly people in our country, they are doing nothing, dancing in the square dance and enjoying their old age freely. Why do they think of suicide?
If we want to go to the source, or because? Poverty? In fact, the elderly poor population in Korea has reached 49.8%. What concept? In other words, nearly half of the elderly in Korean society are in poverty. Then why is this happening? In fact, decades ago, South Korea's social thought was very similar to that of China, right? Looking forward to your son's success and your daughter's success? , what else? Raising children for old age? Parents do everything to raise their children, and children need to be filial and take care of their elderly parents when they grow up. Therefore, South Korea does not need a social security welfare system very much, and there are not many nursing homes.
But now most Korean young people flock to the central cities one by one, in a competitive environment? Difficult to survive? At the same time, high prices, mortgages and car loans in South Korea have emptied every penny of these young people's pockets. They are willing to spend money on loans and immerse themselves in a colorful and helpless life, while their parents can only spend their old age in remote and empty rural poverty.
Facing the poverty of life, these old people can only? Back to this world? Although the legal retirement age in Korea is 60 years old, poor old people are forced by life and still have to work after retirement. However, white-collar workers can't compete with young people because of their age, so most old people are engaged in low-paying and labor-intensive jobs, mostly coolies that young people don't like, such as cleaners, oilers or couriers. Even the elderly who belonged to the middle class before retirement can only give up their dignity and dignity in the face of the current social situation.
No wonder when I was traveling in Korea before, I found that most taxi drivers, couriers or restaurant waiters were basically middle-aged and elderly people. This is the current social situation in South Korea. Some people may ask, that child is unable to support his parents, so doesn't Korea have a pension system? Listen to a familiar Korean friend, because Korean society has always upheld a? Raising children for old age? Therefore, the pension reserve is insufficient and the pension system is not actively promoted. Facing the current situation, the local government doesn't know what to do at the moment. Although the Korean government had a relatively perfect public pension system before, the premise was that if the children of the elderly had a fixed job, they would be regarded as capable of supporting the elderly and would not be given a pension. And those who can get a pension, the meager amount is actually difficult to support the living expenses.
Under the pressure from all sides, the situation of the elderly in Korea will face the status quo, but the aging in Korea is still serious. According to the current development trend, it is estimated that the future will only be more bleak. When Bian Xiao was traveling in South Korea, I was deeply impressed by the conversation between my friend and the taxi driver. Afterwards, my friend told me that she talked with the driver about work. The old driver told her that his goal in life is to work until his body can't eat. He is a generation who lives for life and never dares to rest! It can be seen that most elderly people in Korea can't live in their old age. What do you think of this? Welcome to leave your original opinion in the comments section.