A woman in her 60s and her daughter in her 20s were found dead on Sunday, in what police suspect to be suicides in Iksan, North Jeolla.
Bank of Korea Gov. Rhee Chang-yong called for policies to help older people liquidate their assets, including through reverse mortgages, to alleviate the high rate of elderly poverty.
Argentina's poverty rate dropped to 38.1 percent in libertarian President Javier Milei's first year in office, the nation's official statistics agency reported on Monday.
Elderly people stand in line at a soup kitchen set up outside Tapgol Park in Jongno District, central Seoul, on Wednesday, which also marks Senior Citizens' Day in Korea.
Around 42,000 adults over age 65 are earning less than a dollar per hour by collecting used paper on the streets, the Health Ministry said Thursday.
The mother of an eight-month-old infant who died while the mother was out of the house was given a suspended sentence after the court blamed society for "failing to protect socially vulnerable groups."
Korean senior citizens' poverty rate has been on the mend but is still high among members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a report showed Thursday.
On Sunday, a mother and two daughters were found dead in their home in Suwon, Gyeonggi. All three women were ill and struggling to make ends meet and had fallen behind on their monthly rent.
“What will be given to me? As payment for exhibiting my misery?”
A group of youths in their 20s and 30s came together to open a soup kitchen for elderly citizens Bogwang-dong in central Seoul’s Yongsan District. The Korea Legacy Committee (KLC) opened Legacy Kitchen on Sunday. The soup kitchen cooks meals for ...
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