Society & Social Trends

The Five-Year Gap Between a 60-Year-Old Retirement Age and a 65-Year-Old Pension In Korea, the legal retirement age is 60, but the National Pension doesn’t start paying out until as …

What the Numbers Reveal About a Shifting Conversation By now, it’s hardly news that artificial intelligence has woven itself into daily life. What’s more interesting is how the substance of …

A Single Number Quietly Crossed a Line On July 28, 2026, Korea’s National Data Agency released the results of the 2025 Population and Housing Census, and one figure stood out. …

Corporate Benefits Are Expanding to Include Mental Health Corporate benefits in Korea have long been described around a set of fairly visible line items: housing assistance, meals, medical costs, tuition …

The Highest-Scoring Conflict Wasn’t Generational or Regional. It Was Ideological. Discussions of division in Korean society tend to reach first for generation, gender, or the gap between Seoul and everywhere …

When the Debate Over Pad Prices Turned Into a Public Service In South Korea, support for menstrual products has long been framed as a welfare policy for low-income female adolescents. …