Kim Young-soon, an office cleaner in her early 70s, says she grapples with high costs of living as her disposable income has ...

We do so forgetting our own contribution to underdevelopment and poverty trap. According to Synthesis Report on the ...

Amid soaring income inequality, nearly 40% aged 65 or older live in poverty in Korea South Korea’s elderly poverty rate worsened for the second consecutive year, intensifying concerns as the country ...

SEOUL – South Korea’s elderly poverty rate worsened for the second consecutive year, intensifying concerns as the country officially became a superaged society at the end of last year — where 20 ...

In Davos, politicians and people from the business world discussed the fight against poverty. In fact, such conferences are completely pointless in the fight against poverty. In his speech, Javier Mil ...

The poverty rate among older adults has worsened for two consecutive years, according to data the Ministry of Health and Welfare and Statistics Korea released the same day. Around 38.2 percent of ...

An Air Busan plane caught fire at Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea, on Tuesday (January 28) while preparing ...

South Korea tackled difficult economic reforms following ... Socioeconomic problems also persist, and include rising inequality, poverty among the elderly, high youth unemployment, long working ...

During a recent interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, President Donald Trump stated that he would reach out to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un again in his second term to mitigate security ...

Within the OECD group of higher-income nations, South Korea holds the widest gap, with men earning 37 percent more than women ... More than 43 percent of this group have student loan debt, compared to ...

He is the author of “Within Our Means,” a biweekly newsletter on ending poverty in America. The classic promise of the American dream is that no matter where you grew up, no matter how poor ...