Low pension adequacy, restrictive safety nets, and life-course inequality explain why old age so often means poverty in Korea. South Korea is aging faster than any other OECD country, but its most ...

South Korea’s high caregiving burden is expected to further exacerbate elderly poverty. Korea ranks overwhelmingly first in “elderly poverty” among OECD member countries. According to an OECD report ...

After emerging from the 1950-53 war with North Korea, South Korea emerged as one of the 20th century’s most remarkable ...

The small satisfactions I enjoyed in daily life were taken away by the Iran war. After the war began, the average gasoline ...

Columban missionary Robert John Brennan, who worked for more than six decades among South Korea’s marginalized communities and came to be called “the godfather of the poor,” died on March 22. He was ...

Low pension adequacy, restrictive safety nets, and life-course inequality explain why old age so often means poverty in Korea.