A combination of an aging society and a reliance on temporary workers meant older people were disproportionately on the ...

and rural areas are both underpopulated and disproportionately elderly. Just over half of South Korea's entire population ...

Of the country’s 9,472 temporary wildfire monitors, more than 73 per cent are over the age of 60, according to the Korea ...

This preventive healthcare model must be actively adopted to reduce medical expenses and increase the healthy elderly population." Domestic experts state that South Korea, which has entered a ...

ANDONG: Walking with a cane, 84-year-old apple farmer Kim Mi-ja surveys the wreckage of her village, which was reduced to ...

South Korea's parliament on Thursday passed a bill to reform the country's $830 billion pension fund and delay the depletion ...

South Korea's income inequality has decreased over the past decade, but the relative poverty rate among the elderly population is among the highest among member countries of the Organisation for ...

After emerging from the 1950-53 war with North Korea, South Korea emerged as ... to address challenges arising from its rapidly aging population, inflexible labor market, continued dominance ...

Wildfires and Aging Society Make for Deadly Mix in South Korea By Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters ... However, the make up of the population is only one of the issues, experts say.

Empty cradles in the newborn room of a public postpartum care center in Seoul, South Korea, in 2023. YONHAP Fueled by the world's fastest aging population, South Korea's national debt is projected ...