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Survey: 7 in 10 Workers Support Raising Retirement Age

Written: 2025-11-19 16:06:19Updated: 2025-11-19 19:28:32

Seven out of 10 workers in their 20s and 30s in South Korea believe the retirement age should be raised, according to a recent survey.

Remember & Company, the operator of a professional networking site and HR tech platform, said on Wednesday that 74 percent of workers feel the retirement age should be higher, based on a survey of one-thousand-37 respondents.

More than 80 percent of those in their 60s supported raising the retirement age, as did approximately 78 percent of respondents in their 50s.

Nearly 68 percent of those in their 20s and 70 percent of respondents in their 30s also showed high approval rates.

When asked what the ideal retirement age would be, more than 60 percent of respondents gave a range of 63 to 65.

Economic anxiety was the most significant driver of desires to delay retirement.

But generations differed in their mechanisms for change, with respondents in their 20s citing performance- or job-oriented wage reform as a priority and those in their 40s and 50s recommending retraining as a tool to maintain the productivity of the older workforce.

A spokesperson for Remember & Company’s business research division stressed that discussions about the issue should focus on reorganizing the existing personnel system rather than on generational conflicts.

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