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24.08.24 Empty Houses Are Becoming a Problem for Japan

ํ•˜๋Š˜์„ ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋‹ฅํ„ฐ ๊ณ ์•„์› ์งฑ 2024. 10. 13. 00:21

Empty Houses Are Becoming a Problem for Japan

๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ผ๋ณธ์˜ ๋นˆ์ง‘

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As Japan grapples with a declining population, it is also confronted with the side effect of vacant houses and apartments.

์ผ๋ณธ์ด ์ธ๊ตฌ ๊ฐ์†Œ์™€ ์”จ๋ฆ„ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋นˆ์ง‘๊ณผ ๋นˆ ์•„ํŒŒํŠธ์˜ ๋ถ€์ž‘์šฉ์—๋„ ์ง๋ฉดํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* grapple with something : ~์™€ ์”จ๋ฆ„ํ•˜๋‹ค, ~์„ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ  ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•˜๋‹ค

* vacant : ๋น„์–ด ์žˆ๋Š”

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While it used to beโ€‹ most common in rural areas, it is also being seen in cities like Tokyo and Osaka.

์ด๋Š” ์‹œ๊ณจ ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํ”ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋„์ฟ„์™€ ์˜ค์‚ฌ์นด ๊ฐ™์€ ๋„์‹œ์—์„œ๋„ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* While it used to be... : ์˜ˆ์ „์—๋Š” ~์˜€์ง€๋งŒ โ€‹

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With declining birthrates over the past 50 years, there are fewer people for the elderly to pass down a property to.

์ง€๋‚œ 50๋…„ ๋™์•ˆ ์ถœ์ƒ๋ฅ ์ด ๊ฐ์†Œํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋…ธ์ธ๋“ค์ด ์ž์‚ฐ์„ ๋ฌผ๋ ค์ค„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์ ์–ด์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* pass down something : (ํ›„๋Œ€์—) ~์„ ๋ฌผ๋ ค์ฃผ๋‹ค โ€‹โ€‹

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The problem for the government is no longer a lack of housing, but a lack of people.

์ •๋ถ€์˜ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋Š” ์ด์ œ ์ฃผํƒ ๋ถ€์กฑ์ด ์•„๋‹Œ ์ธ๊ตฌ ๋ถ€์กฑ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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This raises the risk of a fall in property prices in an already challenged economy.

์ด๋Š” ์ด๋ฏธ ์–ด๋ ค์›€์„ ๊ฒช๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์ œ ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ ๋ถ€๋™์‚ฐ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ํ•˜๋ฝ์˜ ์œ„ํ—˜์„ ๋†’์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* raise the risk : ์œ„ํ—˜์„ ๋†’์ด๋‹ค

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