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December 9, 2019 Social affairs

[News Focus] Number of Seoulites residing alone up 300,000 in 10 years

SEJONG -- The number of residents in Seoul stood at 9.73 million as of November 2019, according to the Ministry of Interior and Safety. This is estimated to be the lowest figure in more than 30 years...

Edited (for Fri) Number of people paying into state pension falls 150,000 in 2019

Number of people paying into state pension falls 150,000 in 2019 [News Focus] By Kim Yon-se SEJONG -- South Koreans born in 1969 or later cannot enjoy the old-age annuity benefits, paid by the nat...

December 5, 2019
Social affairs
[News Focus] Number of centenarians in Korea tops 20,000

SEJONG -- The number of people over the age of 70 is rapidly increasing in South Korea, which was dubbed an “aged society” two years ago, according to standards set by the United Nations. Further, t...

December 3, 2019
Social affairs
[News Focus] Gyeonggi, Sejong see unemployment-payouts surge

SEJONG -- More than 3 million of the working-age population, aged 15-64, in South Korea have been de facto out of work, while the government highlighted that the nation’s jobless people stayed under ...

December 2, 2019
Economy
[News Focus] Outlook for Korean economy remains grim

SEJONG -- South Korea has yet to see any positive signals of an economic revival although the government predicted it would bounce back in the second half of the year. The financial woes of companie...

December 1, 2019
Economy
[News Focus] Real estate, education policies lower Moon’s approval ratings among housewives, students

SEJONG -- President Moon Jae-in started the latter part of his term this month amid discontent with his administration’s policies on real estate and education. Alongside sagging economic indices, a ...

November 28, 2019
Politics
[News Focus] Of 36 OECD countries, Korea stands at No. 28 in employment

SEJONG -- For South Koreans who say they do not support the incumbent administration, jobs are one of the main reasons cited in polls. President Moon Jae-in’s detractors say the government’s labor p...

November 27, 2019
Economy
[News Focus] OECD’s debt data suggests Korea’s inherent risks

SEJONG -- A large proportion of middle-aged South Koreans have become hugely indebted to financial firms over the past few years due to their apartment purchases. The previous Park Geun-hye administ...

November 21, 2019
Economy
[News Focus] Women increasingly outnumber men in Korea

SEJONG -- The number of women was found to have overtaken that of men in South Korea more than four years ago, a demographic database held by the government showed. According to the Ministry of Inte...

November 19, 2019
Social affairs
[News Focus] People question policy on Seoul apartments

SEJONG -- An online commenter, who identified himself as a salaried worker in charge of a household, wrote earlier this month that he bought an apartment in Seoul during the latter part of the Park G...

November 17, 2019
Economy
[News Focus] Meager birthrate expected to undermine Korea’s GDP

SEJONG -- The number of South Koreans aged 14 or under accounted for only 12.5 percent of the total population as of October 2019, according to the Ministry of Interior and Safety. The demographic d...

November 14, 2019
Social affairs
[News Focus] Investment banks not upbeat about Korea’s 2020 economy

SEJONG -- South Korea’s economic growth is projected to fall behind that of the US this year, according to outlooks from global investment banks and international organizations. Most of them have pr...

November 12, 2019
Economy
[News Focus] Year of soccer, Olympics, elections coming up

SEJONG -- The 2010s will terminate in about 50 days, and South Korean politics will face a turbulent time from the beginning of the 2020s as the nation has already entered the election mode for the 2...

November 10, 2019
Social affairs
[News Focus] Right-wing party strong on home turf, losing ground elsewhere: survey

SEJONG -- Advocates of President Moon Jae-in and the ruling Democratic Party of Korea appear to be mostly supportive of their efforts to root out corruption from the nation’s public institutions, inc...

November 7, 2019
Politics
[News Focus] 1 in 5 young Koreans de facto out of work

SEJONG -- The Moon administration has claimed that the number of jobless Koreans aged between 15 and 29 was 313,000 as of September, meaning youth unemployment rate fell from above 10 percent to 7.3 ...

November 5, 2019
Social affairs

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