A Decade After Songpa Tragedy, Korea Moves to Reinvent Welfare

SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — More than a decade after the suicide of three impoverished women in Seoul’s Songpa District shocked the nation and exposed deep flaws in the welfare system, South Korea’s government has unveiled its most ambitious blueprint yet to build what it calls a “zero poverty society.” The Lee Jae-myung administration [...]