“South Korea is incomparably far ahead of North Korea in terms of conventional weapons,” said Choi Byung-ook, a national security professor at Sangmyung University. “We have smaller troops now, but I ...

South Korea's population may decline to just 15% of its current size by 2125 if existing demographic trends persist, a private think tank in Seoul has warned. The Korean Peninsula Population Institute ...

South Korea's economically inactive population rose this year due to a fast increase in a so-called "take-a-rest" population, statistical ministry data showed Wednesday.

SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea's military shrank by 20% in the past six years to 450,000 troops, largely due to a sharp drop in the population of males of enlistment age for mandatory service in the ...

South Korea’s population is projected to drop from 51 million to 11 million in 100 years due to a low fertility rate of 0.75.

The United Nations Population Division has estimated that about 12 percent of North Koreans are aged 65 or older. The U.N.