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New generation changes image of senior citizens in Korea

Senior citizens in Korea are healthier, wealthier, more active and confident than ever. If elderly people were typically depicted as passive and dependent, suffering from poverty, the new generation of senior citizens gives off a different image. A woman surnamed Roh, who runs a small hardware shop with her husband in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province, lived under the same roof as her husband's mother - prior to the mother-in-law's death a few years ago - but she doesn't want that lifestyle for herself, her husband and her son's family. “We are still healthy and we can make ends meet with the money we earn. Why would we live together with my son's family? They wouldn't like it, and I wouldn't like it either. My friends say that's the last thing we should do,” said the 68-year-old.

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