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 ...

Posts flaunting luxury items while joking about being broke have sparked anger across South Korean social media.

Nearly 4 in 10 Koreans aged 66 and older are living below the relative poverty line, highlighting deepening economic insecurity for many in the country’s aging population, a government report showed ...

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 ...