SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 1.5 million South Korean people are at risk of “lonely death,” or unattended death, accounting for 3 percent of the country’s population, a government survey showed Thursday. The Ministry of Health and Welfare said it had conducted the poll on a sample of 9,471 single-member households from [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government will put an additional 2,000 single-person households on a special program that harnesses Internet of Things (IoT) technology to monitor and prevent unattended deaths, officials said Monday. Since late 2020, the city has been operating the “smart plug” program, under which the amounts of electricity [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) – To prevent unattended deaths or suicides of senior citizens who are living alone, the Korean government takes measures such as making friends among themselves and providing facilities where they can live together. The Ministry of Health and Welfare will launch pilot projects targeting for living-alone seniors in urban [...]