South Korea discussed the cancellation of the "retirement age". Korean netizen: Can you give young people more positions?

[Global Times special reporter Zhang Jing in South Korea] Affected by comprehensive factors such as aging and low fertility rates, the accelerated population of South Korea's economic activity is facing the crisis of "population cliff". According to South Korea's "Asian Economy" reported on the 22nd, the South Korean government began to conduct social discussions on extended or canceling the retirement age system. However, delayed retirement may cause strong opposition to the youth groups, and it is unknown when to introduce relevant measures.

The "Population Trends in April 2022" released by the South Korean Department of Statistics on the 22nd shows that due to the spread of new crown pneumonia and the increasingly serious influence, South Korea died 36,700 people in April, an increase of 46.3%over the same period last year; Thousands of people fell 7.0%compared with the same period last year. From this April, the population naturally decreased by 156,000. This is also the natural decrease in the population of South Korea for 30 months since November 2019. In addition, South Korea ’s labor age population will be reduced from 37.38 million in 2020 to 24.19 million in 2050, a decrease of 35.3%. South Korea will face the problem of insufficient labor and further restrict economic development.

Yonhap News Agency said on the 21st that considering the decrease in population and aging, the population tone of the new Korean government's population policy is from responding to low fertility rates to adapting to the reduction of population reduction. The "New Government Economic Policy direction" issued by the Ministry of Planning and Finance on the 16th clearly clearly has "discussions on continuing to hire aging personnel." The South Korean government has determined four major issues around the aging of the population: increasing the population of economic activities, responding to population atrophy, preparing to welcome the aging era, and low fertility rates. In the measures to increase the population of the economic activity, continuing to hire personnel is considered the most effective, including those who postpone the retirement age from 60 to 65 or cancel the retirement age, and encourage enterprises to re -employ on retirement age. The South Korean government will officially discuss through the Economic and Social Labor Commission. Earlier, the committee has discussed the extension and cancellation of retirement age schemes within the committee. However, it is not easy to delay the working life of the elderly. It will face the increasing labor costs and the objections of the young generation who are worried about the decrease in employment.

South Korea's "Central Daily" stated that with the delay of pension reform, 26%of South Korea's next -generation salary will be used to pay national annuity insurance premiums; by 2080, this expenditure may account for half of the income. However, from the perspective of the income of the elderly, national annuity is not its maximum source of income. Yonhap News Agency said on the 21st that the latest report released by the Organization on the same day showed that many Koreans continued to work after retirement, and more than half of the income of the elderly was obtained from labor. first place. According to an analysis of a retired market report in 2020, more than half of the elderly over the age of 60 in South Korea are in employment, and as they get older, the quality of the post is declining. Wait.

The Korean people are also very concerned about how to solve the problem of aging population and insufficient retirement annuity. Some netizens complained: "When is the work?" Some people said: "Now you can't find a job when you graduate from college in college ... Can you give young people more jobs?" Some netizens proposed to propose Although the law stipulates that the 60 -year -old retirement is stipulated, in addition to civil servants, most companies have left employees to leave early at the age of 50. Let's start with the protection of the 60 -year -old work.