Experts Predict That Yesteryear 2025, I Inwards Five Koreans Volition Hold Upward 65+

Article: South Korea is aging fast... past times 2025, 1 inwards v Koreans volition last over 65 years old

Source: Yonhap News via Nate

1. [+909, -21] Honestly, this is scarier than the virus. It's basically going to run our province into the ground. It's only that nosotros don't experience the implication of it inwards our solar daytime to solar daytime lives thus we're able to ignore it but we're going to root feeling it inwards 10 years.

2. [+666, -38] I think watching a KBS exhibit that covered this theme in addition to predicted that inwards 10-20 years, nosotros won't convey whatever laborers in addition to that we'll convey to aspect inwards other countries (especially South East Asia) to beg people to come upwards in addition to grant them citizenships. In only seven years, we'll last severely lacking a project forcefulness piece withal having to back upwards the elderly population amongst huge taxes.

3. [+631, -25] People born into poverty are non able to escape it due to the ascent costs inwards existent estate. And they're non going to desire to born their children into the same life of slavery either. Korea volition terminate upwards broken amongst people either unable to larn married or refusing to. 

4. [+69, -1] The taxes that our younger generation are paying are to hold the elderly population alive. I don't think that we'll convey plenty people to pay taxes for us i time nosotros hit the elderly age...

5. [+57, -1] The younger generation is non getting married or having children piece the elderly population continues to hit longer life expectancy rates. With the pandemic these days, I've realized that we're all going to convey to create meticulously for our ain retirements.

6. [+56, -1] This is why I chose to last a DINK. By the fourth dimension nosotros convey kids in addition to they're former plenty to last working in addition to contributing to lodge past times 2050, 30% of the population volition last elderly... in addition to that's terrifying. I don't know that increasing life expectancy rates is a blessing...

7. [+53, -0] Poverty is a big employment amongst the elderly population fifty-fifty now, in addition to that's amongst a potent younger generation that's able to back upwards them. By the fourth dimension people inwards their 30s-50s hit elderly historic menstruum inwards the future, nosotros volition no longer convey a younger generation to back upwards us. At that rate, the elderly volition last living exclusively because they haven't died, in addition to I bet suicide rates volition last to a greater extent than grim in addition to then too. We're basically f*cked.

8. [+51, -0] I convey been noticing to a greater extent than elderly on the underground than the younger population these days

9. [+30, -1] Please don't convey children if you lot don't convey the coin for it. Why would the kid deserve such a life?

10. [+30, -0] I'm able to larn past times on my ain straightaway but I don't know that I'll convey the agency to last happily if I were to larn married in addition to convey children

11. [+29, -0] Even animals don't reproduce if the environmental weather condition aren't correct for them. Why would humans last whatever different? Having kids inwards poverty is a i way path for the parents into destruction.

12. [+25, -0] People convey larn every bit good smart too. They've realized that having children is a difficulty inwards this economy.

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