Silver Tsunami: Debt & Solutions

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๐Ÿ” The Reality and Solutions for Retirement Life of Koreans

1๏ธโƒฃ The Reality of Korean Elderly and National Pension

  • Can You Live on the National Pension? Currently, half of the national pension recipients receive less than โ‚ฉ400,000 per month. Also, the average amount received is only about โ‚ฉ600,000.
  • Lack of Realistic Retirement Living Expenses: Experts estimate that adequate living expenses in retirement are approximately โ‚ฉ2.5-3.7 million. However, it is difficult to make up the difference with just the national pension.

2๏ธโƒฃ Reasons for the Economic Difficulties of the Elderly

  • Worst Elderly Poverty Rate in the OECD: Korea has the highest elderly poverty rate and suicide rate in the OECD. This stems from issues like insufficient income and an aging society.
  • Lack of Time to Prepare: Employees retire around the ages of 45-50 on average, failing to adequately prepare for retirement.
  • Imbalanced Initial Investment: While many invest thousands to hundreds of millions of won in education up to university graduation, the first salary after graduation is mostly under โ‚ฉ2-3 million.

3๏ธโƒฃ Basic Costs You Incur Just by Breathing

  • According to sources, basic retirement expenses including food, clothing, shelter, taxes, health insurance, apartment management fees, insurance, and medical expenses amount to an average of about โ‚ฉ2.5-3.6 million per month.
  • 55% of employees make a salary of less than โ‚ฉ3 million, making it extremely difficult to cover these expenses in retirement.

4๏ธโƒฃ Inevitable Reality, Looking for Solutions

  • Side Hustles and Second Jobs: Many employees are now pursuing side hustles to prepare for the future. There is even a new word, “N-jobber,” to describe those who have multiple jobs.
  • The Importance of Pension Preparation: Given the instability of the national pension system, it is crucial to start private pensions or investments early.
  • The Need to Change Consumption Patterns: Realistically, it’s essential to reduce social costs such as children’s education and marriage expenses, and to strengthen retirement preparation strategies for oneself.

โœ… Conclusion

In Korea, it is difficult to prepare systematically for retirement with just the national pension. Alternatives include long-term career development, financial management, side hustles, and asset management. Above all, both social structural reform and individual preparation are essential.


*YouTube Source: [๋จธ๋‹ˆ์ธ์‚ฌ์ด๋“œ]

– “์ˆจ๋งŒ ์‰ฌ์–ด๋„ ๋ˆ ๋‚˜๊ฐ„๋‹ค” ์€ํ‡ด ํ›„ ์‹ค๋ฒ„ ํŒŒ์‚ฐ ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค ํŠน์ง• (์ด๊ธฐํ›ˆ ์ž‘๊ฐ€ 3๋ถ€)

[Korean Summary]




[๋จธ๋‹ˆ์ธ์‚ฌ์ด๋“œ]
“์ˆจ๋งŒ ์‰ฌ์–ด๋„ ๋ˆ ๋‚˜๊ฐ„๋‹ค” ์€ํ‡ด ํ›„ ์‹ค๋ฒ„ ํŒŒ์‚ฐ ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค ํŠน์ง• (์ด๊ธฐํ›ˆ ์ž‘๊ฐ€ 3๋ถ€)

 

์š”์ฒญํ•˜์‹  ๋‚ด์šฉ๊ณผ ๊ธ€์˜ ์ฃผ์ œ๋Š” ์กฐ๊ธˆ ์ •๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•ด ๋ณด์—ฌ์š”. ์ผ๋ถ€๋Š” ์ค‘๋ณต๋˜๊ณ , ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€๊ฐ€ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์ €๊ธฐ ํฉ์–ด์ ธ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ๊ฐ„๊ฒฐํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ํ•ต์‹ฌ๋งŒ ์ „๋‹ฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ์ „์ฒด ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ์ฒด๊ณ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ •๋ฆฌํ•ด ๋ด์•ผ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”. ์•„๋งˆ ๋’ค์ชฝ์˜ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ตญ๋ฏผ์—ฐ๊ธˆ, ํ‡ด์ง์ž ํ˜„์‹ค, ์ƒํ™œ๋น„ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ๋‹ค๋ฃจ๋Š” ๋‚ด์šฉ์ธ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๋„ค์š”.


๐Ÿ” ํ‡ด์ง ํ›„์˜ ํ•œ๊ตญ์ธ์˜ ์‚ถ, ํ˜„์‹ค๊ณผ ๋Œ€์ฑ…

1๏ธโƒฃ ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋…ธ์ธ๊ณผ ๊ตญ๋ฏผ ์—ฐ๊ธˆ์˜ ํ˜„์‹ค

  • ๊ตญ๋ฏผ์—ฐ๊ธˆ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‚˜? ํ˜„์žฌ ๊ตญ๋ฏผ์—ฐ๊ธˆ ์ˆ˜๊ธ‰์ž ์ ˆ๋ฐ˜์€ ํ•œ ๋‹ฌ์— 40๋งŒ ์›์กฐ์ฐจ ๋ชป ๋ฐ›์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜, ํ‰๊ท  ์ˆ˜๋ น์•ก์€ ์•ฝ 60๋งŒ ์› ์ผ๋ฟ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ํ˜„์‹ค์ ์ธ ๋…ธํ›„์ƒํ™œ๋น„ ๋ถ€์กฑ: ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€๋“ค์€ ๋…ธํ›„์˜ ์ ์ • ์ƒํ™œ๋น„๋ฅผ ์•ฝ 250-370๋งŒ ์› ์ •๋„๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ตญ๋ฏผ์—ฐ๊ธˆ ์ˆ˜๋ น์•ก๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ๊ทธ ์ฐจ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ฉ”์šฐ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ํž˜๋“  ์‹ค์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

2๏ธโƒฃ ๋…ธ์ธ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์  ์–ด๋ ค์›€ ์ด์œ 

  • OECD ์ตœ์•…์˜ ๋…ธ์ธ ๋นˆ๊ณค์œจ: ํ•œ๊ตญ์€ ๋…ธ์ธ ๋นˆ๊ณค์œจ๊ณผ ์ž์‚ด๋ฅ ์ด OECD 1์œ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์†Œ๋“ ๋ถ€์กฑ, ๊ณ ๋ นํ™” ์‚ฌํšŒ ๋“ฑ์˜ ๋ฌธ์ œ์—์„œ ๋น„๋กฏ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ์ค€๋น„ํ•  ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋ถ€์กฑ: ์ง์žฅ์ธ๋“ค์ด ํ‰๊ท  45~50์„ธ ์ „ํ›„๋กœ ํ‡ด์งํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ๋…ธํ›„ ์ค€๋น„๋ฅผ ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ํˆฌ์ž ๋ถˆ๊ท ํ˜•: ๋Œ€ํ•™ ์กธ์—…๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ต์œก๋น„์— ์ˆ˜์ฒœ์ˆ˜์–ต ์› ํˆฌ์žํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์œผ๋‚˜, ์กธ์—… ํ›„ ์ฒซ ์›”๊ธ‰์€ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ **200300๋งŒ ์› ๋ฏธ๋งŒ**์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

3๏ธโƒฃ ์ˆจ๋งŒ ์‰ฌ์–ด๋„ ๋“œ๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋ณธ๋น„์šฉ

  • ์ถœ์ฒ˜์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ๋…ธํ›„ ์ง€์ถœ๋กœ ์˜์‹์ฃผ, ์„ธ๊ธˆ, ๊ฑด๊ฐ•๋ณดํ—˜๋ฃŒ, ์•„ํŒŒํŠธ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„, ๋ณดํ—˜๋ฃŒ, ์˜๋ฃŒ๋น„ ๋“ฑ์ด ํฌํ•จ๋˜์–ด ์›” ํ‰๊ท  ์•ฝ 250~360๋งŒ ์› ์ •๋„๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜๊ฐ‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ์ง์žฅ์ธ 55%๋Š” 300๋งŒ ์› ๋ฏธ๋งŒ์˜ ์›”๊ธ‰์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ์ด์–ด๊ฐ€๋Š”๋ฐ, ๋…ธํ›„์— ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ง€์ถœ์„ ์ถฉ๋‹นํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑด ๋งค์šฐ ์–ด๋ ต์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

4๏ธโƒฃ ํ”ผํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ํ˜„์‹ค, ๋ณด๋Š” ํ•ด๋ฒ•

  • ๋ถ€์—…๊ณผ ํˆฌ์žก: ์ง€๊ธˆ์˜ ๋งŽ์€ ์ง์žฅ์ธ๋“ค์ด ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ๋Œ€๋น„ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ถ€์—…์„ ๋ณ‘ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ฌ์ง€์–ด “์—”์žก๋Ÿฌ”๋ผ๋Š” ์‹ ์กฐ์–ด๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๊ธธ ์ •๋„๋กœ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ง์—…์„ ๊ฐ–๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋Š˜์–ด๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ์—ฐ๊ธˆ ์ค€๋น„์˜ ์ค‘์š”์„ฑ: ๊ตญ๋ฏผ์—ฐ๊ธˆ ์ œ๋„๊ฐ€ ์•ˆ์ •์ ์ด์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๋‹ค ๋ณด๋‹ˆ, ์ผ์ฐ ์‚ฌ์  ์—ฐ๊ธˆ ๋˜๋Š” ํˆฌ์ž ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ์†Œ๋น„ ํŒจํ„ด์˜ ๋ณ€ํ™” ํ•„์š”: ํ˜„์‹ค์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ž๋…€ ๊ต์œก, ๊ฒฐํ˜ผ ๋“ฑ ์‚ฌํšŒ์  ๋น„์šฉ ์ง€์ถœ์„ ์ค„์ด๊ณ , ์ž์‹ ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋…ธํ›„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์ „๋žต์„ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โœ… ๊ฒฐ๋ก 

์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋‚˜๋ผ๋Š” ๊ตญ๋ฏผ์—ฐ๊ธˆ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์ฒด๊ณ„์ ์ธ ๋…ธํ›„ ๋Œ€๋น„๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋ ต์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋Œ€์•ˆ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์žฅ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ, ์žฌํ…Œํฌ, ๋ถ€์—…, ์ž์‚ฐ ์šด์šฉ ๋“ฑ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค ์‚ฌํšŒ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์  ๊ฐœํ˜๊ณผ ๊ฐœ์ธ์˜ ์ค€๋น„ ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ํ•„์ˆ˜์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


  ๐Ÿ” The Reality and Solutions for Retirement Life of Koreans 1๏ธโƒฃ The Reality of Korean Elderly and National Pension Can You Live on the National Pension? Currently, half of the national pension recipients receive less than โ‚ฉ400,000 per month. Also, the average amount received is only about โ‚ฉ600,000. Lack of Realistic Retirement Living Expenses:…

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