Low pension adequacy, restrictive safety nets, and life-course inequality explain why old age so often means poverty in Korea ...
The wealth gap between the rich and poor in South Korea is wider than ever. Its elderly poverty rate is the highest among ...
The Lee Jae-myung administration’s July 2025 agreement with the United States lowered US tariffs in exchange for large-scale ...
Even as economic hardship eases, a growing number of Koreans are sliding into “relationship poverty” — living stable lives materially yet increasingly isolated, lonely and disconnected in an ...