By Kim Jae-heun
Four out of 10 people said money would be most important in their old age, which was more than good health and family, a report showed Monday.
According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare report submitted to Rep. Yoon Jong-pil of the Liberty Korea Party, 82.8 percent of 2,000 adults surveyed in 2017 also said the country's aging issue was a serious problem.
Over 83 percent also said they were worried about the influence of an aging society on their lives, with 16.4.percent saying they were “seriously concerned.”
For people's later years, money has pushed out health and family to become the most important factor.
Nearly 40 percent of the respondents picked “financial stability” as the most important element, pushing out “health,” which ranked top in the survey a year before. Health ranked second in the survey, with 38 percent, down by 10.3 percentage points.
Employment ranked third with 6.9 percent, followed by friends and relationships, with 6 percent, and hobbies and volunteer work with 4.9 percent.
When asked at what age they would continue to work to if they had no health problems, people said they would work until they were 72.9 years old on average, 4.4 years up from the previous survey.