One in five people in South Korea is elderly…Traffic accidents caused by elderly drivers become a problem

In South Korea, the management of elderly drivers' licenses has become a social issue recently, following a series of accidents caused by drivers aged 65 or older who claim to have accelerated suddenly.
In three recent traffic accidents that were widely reported in South Korea, it was discovered that all the drivers of the vehicles involved were in their 70s or 80s.
South Korea is on the brink of becoming a "super-aged society" in which the proportion of the population aged 65 or older will exceed 20 percent, so the number of elderly drivers is bound to increase.
According to the Ministry of the Interior and Safety of South Korea on the 13th, as of the 10th of this month, the registered population of people aged 65 and over accounted for 19.51% of the total population, and will exceed 20% by 2025, becoming a "super-elderly" population.
As the elderly population increases, the number of traffic accidents caused by elderly drivers is also increasing every year.
It is a difficult situation. On the 13th, according to the Traffic Accident Analysis System (TAAS), the number of accidents caused by elderly drivers aged 65 and over is expected to decrease from 33,239 in 2019 to 39,000 in 2023.
The number of cases increased by 19.8% to 614. Of course, the Korean government is not just sitting idly by. Currently, each local government is encouraging elderly drivers to voluntarily return their licenses, and is encouraging drivers aged 65 and over to voluntarily return their licenses.
The government offers compensation of 100,000 to 300,000 won (approximately 11,767 to 34,400 yen) to those who surrender their driver's licenses. However, the rate of surrendering drivers' licenses has remained at around 2% for the past few years.
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