Political parties in Korea are proposing major policies to appeal to the older generation ahead of the April general elections.
A majority of foreign dependents subscribed to Korea’s national health insurance were Chinese, data showed.
Beth Wordley, a 21-year-old exchange student at the Seoul National University, did not know she would be automatically registered for the national health insurance upon her arrival in Korea.
President Yoon Suk-yeol took aim at healthcare "freeloaders," saying that the overly generous benefits offered first under the previous administration had to be scaled back to prevent fraud and waste.
The state health insurer suffered a setback in its six-year court battle against three tobacco companies on Friday, after a local court rejected its request for compensation from the cigarette giants to offset the treatment costs for diseases...
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