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A 62-year-old retired house painter in Seoul owns exactly one thing, according to the two reporters who followed him: an empty steel cart that weighs 79 kilos, about 174 pounds. He uses it to collect cardboard, which scrapyards buy by the kilo. Korea's government estimated about 42,000 old people were doing this in 2023, average age 76, working mostly before dawn, in the street. Most said they needed the money to live, and one in 16 had been hit in traffic while collecting. At the scale, the reporters wrote, the weigh-in is
A 62-year-old retired house painter in Seoul owns exactly one thing, according to the two reporters who followed him: an empty steel cart that weighs 79 kilos, about 174 pounds. He uses it to collect cardboard, which scrapyards buy by the kilo. Korea's government estimated about 42,000 old people were doing this in 2023, average age 76, working mostly before dawn, in the street. Most said they needed the money to live, and one in 16 had been hit in traffic while collecting. At the scale, the reporters wrote, the weigh-in is "as strict as a boxer's." When a grandmother slipped her foot onto the platform, the owner snapped, "Grandma, are you kidding? Get off." She whispered, "It'd only be another 1,000 won." The reporters tried it themselves: 10 hours, 232 kilos (about 500 pounds), and 10,000 won, roughly $8.50. Their blister ointment the next day cost 5,000. At another yard, a woman in her eighties told them, "I pick all day and still can't properly eat a 3,000-won bowl of noodles, so I often go hungry." One September 2026 morning, an 80-year-old pushing a converted baby stroller made 3,700 won (about $2.72), the day's money for her and the two grandsons she has raised since her son died. Almost all of them worked for decades. In the government's survey, 86% had jobs before 65, for an average of 24 years, but only a quarter get a pension from that work. 93% rely on Korea's Basic Pension, which in 2023 paid at most about 323,000 won a month, around $250. The cart fills the gap between that and rent. The painter lives on welfare, but it isn't nearly enough to feed him, and any money he earns can get his welfare cut. So he collects cardboard without reporting the income. "I do a little on the sly," he told the reporters. One startup in Seoul actually builds lighter carts for collectors. A normal cart weighs about 75 kilos, and the startup got theirs down to 38. It stopped there, because its founder says "a cart that is too light breaks."

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