South Korea’s fertility rate rose slightly to 0.74 in 2024, but it remains the lowest among OECD countries. The replacement rate needed to sustain population levels is 2.1— South Korea is far below ...
Low pension adequacy, restrictive safety nets, and life-course inequality explain why old age so often means poverty in Korea ...
Tesla CEO Elon Musk mentioned South Korea as the most severe case of "population collapse" globally. Musk appeared on Episode 220 of American entrepreneur Peter Diamandis’s podcast "Moonshot," ...
As Korea’s population quickly ages, pressure is mounting on the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS), with total medical care costs projected ...
South Korean authorities launched a flurry of initiatives in 2025 aimed at reversing the country’s demographic collapse—part of a broader effort to nudge up the world's lowest fertility rate, which ...