After emerging from the 1950-53 war with North Korea, South Korea emerged as one of the ... and include rising inequality, poverty among the elderly, high youth unemployment, long working hours ...

South Korea's jobless rate jumped to the highest in 3-1/2 years in December, as political turmoil stoked economic uncertainty ...

As many as four out of ten elderly people will be working in 2050, according to a report from a state-run research institute ...

Approximately 40 percent of the 10 million people aged 66 and over live in poverty, according to an OECD report published in ...

A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that 60 per cent of South Korea's population ... according to Statistics Korea. According to ministry data, the number of older women stood ...

Employment among older adults continues to rise, but much of this trend is attributed to high elderly poverty rates. Unlike ...