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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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