Calls to parents rose during COVID-19 pandemic, then dipped

“South Koreans called their parents more often during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the frequency declined after social distancing measures were lifted, a report by a state-affiliated research agency showed Thursday. The average number of calls Koreans made to parents they did not live with reached 103 a year in 2020, when the global pandemic began, and rose further to 112 in 2021 and 113 in 2022, according to the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs. That was higher than the annual average

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