As nearly 1 in 2 elderly households are living in poverty in South Korea, the poverty rate among senior citizens who live alone has almost doubled since 2006, a study found Monday. According to a ...

When Lee Myung-bak was inaugurated as the 10th president of South Korea in February 2008, it was an astonishing outcome for a poor boy from Pohang, whose No. 1 dream had been simply to get a job.

At a meeting with journalists on Monday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Russia fears a harsh reaction from China to the issue of attracting military personnel from North Korea to participate ...

South Korea has the highest poverty rate among elderly people despite more than 45 percent of its senior citizens being part of the labor force, according to a new survey. About 43.4 percent of South ...

South Korea may be known for its high-tech advances, luxury skin care products and rapid economic rise, but these days, the generation largely responsible for all that growth isn't faring so well.

Extreme poverty intensified by the Covid-19 pandemic is forcing people in remote areas of communist North Korea to bury dead loved ones secretly in unmarked graves in forests at night to avoid high ...

North Korea’s wealth gap is reportedly widening, as luxury goods circulate among affluent border residents while ordinary citizens face growing extreme poverty. According to Daily NK on Nov. 22, ...

Last summer I taught an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation course at the University of Hawaii. It was part of UH’s APEC Certificate and Internship Programs. During the course students asked me whether ...