she was 85 and had to work many hours a day picking wastepaper
when she was young everything was about huge growth of korea so no one cared about social insurances or other stuff that would secure her future so now states gives her 300 euro per month
they believe in children supporting you instead of gubbinment money there
there were literally dozens of homeless old people or old people paying 150 euro for 7m^2 rooms in some slums
and their kids?
they work 12 hours a day and still have problems and when they were young that grandma probably worked 16 hours a day and had no time for them so they don't give a fuck
In a nation renowned for its high-tech advances, almost half of the elderly population over the age of 65 live in poverty, according to a 2016 OECD economic survey. About a quarter live alone as the Confucian tradition of the younger generation taking care of their parents fades.