SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Nine in 10 South Korean seniors are expected to live on the state pension in 2060, when the country’s national pension fund is estimated to dry up, a report said Tuesday. According to the report by the National Pension Research Institute, 91.3 percent of 17.62 million South Koreans aged [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) – More than 85 percent of South Korean people aged 60 or older watch TV every day, doing so almost twice as much as people aged less than 20, according to a survey released Thursday by a state-run think tank. The survey, conducted by the Korea Information Society Development Institute, [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) – A ‘walking delivery service’ in which elderly individuals buy products themselves and then deliver them to their destination via metro trains and buses has recently been gaining popularity. The ‘walking delivery service’, which began in 2006 in Songpa-gu, Seoul, tallied over 10,000 deliveries last year – a whopping 25 [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) – More people in the older generations are connecting to the Internet through their smartphones and other digital gadgets, although their use of applications was fewer in number and diversity than younger age groups, a survey said Thursday. Nielsen KoreanClick, basing its findings on mobile behavioral data from October 2014 [...]
SUWON, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) – In 2012, Gyeonggi Province started a healthcare campaign aimed at senior citizens living alone, which turned out to be successful in reducing medical expenses and visits, and also depression. According to Gyeonggi Province, the average monthly medical expense for its 9,868 elderly citizens living alone dropped from 63,385 won [...]
SEOUL, Feb.11 (Korea Bizwire) – A law change that will allow officials at public institutions to fill out civil service forms for clients based on their verbal instructions has been enacted, and is expected to lessen the burden on senior citizens and the disabled who often had difficulty filling out forms and other paperwork. At [...]
SEOUL, Jan.6 (Korea Bizwire) – Among the elderly over 65 and living in Seoul, 3 out of 10 are working to make a living, and those who are working still have trouble covering their basic living costs. According an infographic entitled ‘What Type of Work do the Elderly of Seoul Do?’ created by the Seoul [...]
SEOUL, Dec.23 (Korea Bizwire) – One out of five seniors in Korea lives alone, and the number is expected to double over the next 20 years. According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, around 1.4 million seniors currently live alone, which is 20.8 percent of the total elderly population. This means that one out [...]
SEJONG, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean babies born in 2014 are expected to live more than 82 years as medical advances and efforts to maintain a healthy lifestyle reduce death risks, a government report showed Thursday. According to the report by Statistics Korea, the life expectancy of babies born last year averages 82.4 [...]
SEJONG, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of temporary workers in South Korea rose in August from a year earlier as more elderly people joined the workforce, government data showed Wednesday. The economic active population report by Statistics Korea showed the number of temporary workers rising by 194,000 on-year to a little more than [...]