Due to the aging population, the cultivation of chili peppers in Korea is decreasing!A large number of Chinese hot sauce is imported, setting a historical record!
South Korea's imports of chili sauce from China have hit a record high, surpassing 100,000 tons last year alone, according to CCTV Finance.
Looking at these figures alone, I thought it was just ** reason, but people didn't expect that the large number of imports was actually due to the fact that South Korea does not grow chili peppers!
Not only chili peppers, but also food is about to be lost, and the ** of various agricultural products in South Korea is soaring.
As a result, a new profession was born: transporting food from China to South Korea for sale, reportedly earning 20,000 to 30,000 yuan per month.
South Korea's aging population is not a new problem, but surprisingly, it has grown to this point.
In any case, South Korea was"Asian Tigers"one, how to lose"Chili free"What about it?
It all stems from:"Old man"。
Elderly people who can't retire.
According to Xinhua News Agency, South Korea's National Statistics Agency's Demographic Outlook for 2022 to 2072 shows that by 2072, South Korea will enter a super-aging society.
At the current birth rate, South Korea's total population in 2072 could be just 36.2 million, nearly half of whom will be over 65 years old.
Currently, 1 in 10 households in South Korea is elderly living alone.
We have the impression that people over 65 years old should dance, go for a walk or help children.
However, 50% of the elderly in South Korea still work. Of these, 256% are employed, 226% are self-employed, and only about 2% work in office jobs.
It's not that the other half don't want to work, but they may not be able to find one.
The money they earn from their hard work every month is barely enough for the elderly to survive.
The average monthly expenditure of an elderly household in South Korea is 140.2 billion won (about 7,713 yuan), of which 60% is for food, housing, and healthcare.
If one day they lose the ability to work, how will their basic livelihood be guaranteed?
Young people without children.
The reason why the aging population is so serious is because of South Korea's low birth rate.
In general, a country that wants to maintain a stable population has 2 births per woman1 child.
How much is South Korea? 0.78, which is only one-third of the ideal value.
By 2022, the number of newborns in South Korea will reach around 250,000, which is already very small.
However, in the first three quarters of 2023, there is only 1770,000 births were registered, a record low since 1981.
It's hard to imagine that a country of 51.74 million inhabitants has just over 200,000 births per year.
Why can't they be born?
According to a study by the Institute of Korean Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, there may be three main reasons why Koreans are infertile.
First of all, the cost of raising a child is too high.
From the birth of their children to the age of 18, South Korean parents spend about €250,000 on education, while their per capita annual income is only 2230,000 euros.
In other words, it takes 11 years of money to save enough for a child's education without eating or drinking.
Second, there is no time to educate children.
In 2018, South Korea's parliament passed a bill to reduce the maximum working week to 52 hours.
In other words, 40 hours of normal work per week plus 12 hours of overtime on weekends seems like a long time, doesn't it?
But before that, the maximum working week in South Korea was 68 hours!Even if you don't take a break, work 10 hours a day.
Not to mention bringing children, I'm afraid young people don't even have time to have children.
Thirdly, women have their own goals.
In South Korea, once a woman becomes pregnant, her career is likely to be interrupted, transferred or even fired.
Parents spent 10 years of wages to bring up their daughter, and they themselves did their best to get to where they are today, but with children, they are deprived of everything.
As a result, more and more Korean women are choosing to give up motherhood and devote themselves to their careers.
Vicious circle. Due to labor shortages and raw materials, food in South Korea has been in recent years.
Converted to ** yuan, rice is 8 per catty3 yuan, apples are 23 yuan per catty, and bananas are 12 yuan per catty.
The products themselves are all so expensive, not to mention processed foods.
What's even more surprising is that local Korean food is more expensive than imported food.
In general, the selling price of imported food will increase due to tariffs, transportation and storage costs, so it should be higher.
In this case, locally produced food in South Korea is still much more expensive, so maybe there really is no one to grow it anymore.
Food has made the already meager pensions of the elderly even more stretched.
The elderly can only continue to work to subsidize basic living expenses.
The high cost of living also discourages the young"Social animals"Get married and have children.
Young people must also continue to work and work hard to maintain their current lives.
I've heard that South Korea** recently introduced a new rule that civil servants cannot be promoted if they don't have children.
Even this method has been used, which shows the desperation of South Korea.
Not long ago, there was a joke on the Internet that the first country in the world to disappear may be South Korea.
At present, it seems that if South Korea still does not get out of this vicious circle, the future is really uncertain.
Write at the end: Survival and reproduction are natural attributes of human beings.
If a society forces people to fight for survival, they must stop multiplying. Kunpeng Project.