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a department store, there is a dedicated lounge that only customers in their 20s and 30s with high purchasing power can enter.

Behind this phenomenon lies the wealth polarization of the younger generation, which is exacerbated by the inheritance of wealth.



Reporter Jeon Yeon-nam covered the story.



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This is a newly created lounge exclusively for excellent customers by a department store.



Only customers in their 20s and 30s with high purchasing power can enter.



As the purchasing power of the young and wealthy has increased, such as a significant increase in the proportion of consumers under the age of 30 in luxury sales, the VIP age range has been lowered and special management has been initiated.




In the distribution industry, which was mainly concentrated in the 50s and 60s, has descended to the 20s and 30s, and there is a clear polarization among the younger generation.



In fact, the wealth gap between the top 20% of households in their 20s and 30s and the bottom 20% of households widened by 35 times last year.



This is because asset prices such as real estate and stocks have skyrocketed since the corona crisis.



In particular, in the case of people in their 20s, the gap was larger than that in their 30s.



[Mr. A / 20s with real estate assets: I acquired a shopping mall with the seed money I got while doing stocks or coins, and received some gifts from my parents (I was able to purchase it), about 10% to 15% (it went up)]



[Jihae Yoon / Senior Researcher Real Estate 114: 90% (in their 20s) do not own an asset called real estate. There is no alternative other than the gift or inheritance given by your parents unless you have exceptional abilities.] The



polarization of assets in their 20s and 30s stimulates a sense of relative deprivation, and the 'debt investment' and 'youngcheol' craze in which they take out loans and invest in stocks, etc. encourages.



[Mr. B / Stock investor in their 20s: (Seoul) The average house price was 1 billion won. I think that it is an amount that an ordinary office worker can never collect while working... I'm doing stocks with the mindset that let's do this.] It



is pointed out that the deepening of polarization among young people has a bigger side effect.



Blank Ki Bum / Myongji University Economics Professor, as well as some psychological effects such as relative deprivation Another (can act) in such factors create extremely little lost labor motivation -



the more the starting point of the asset gap occurs faster, unbalanced There are also concerns that the severity may increase.



(Video coverage: Yoo Dong-hyuk, video editing: Lee So-young, VJ: Park Hyun-woo)