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- Local S. Korean governments to undertake various basic income experiments in 2020
- In the new year, a basic income experiment for farmers will be taking place at a large number of rural communities around South Korea. The central government has basically taken...
- Jan.3,2020 19:05 KST
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- [Photo] Lee Nak-yeon current favorite as next presidential candidate
- South Koreans favor Prime Minister Lee Nak-yeon as the next presidential candidate. In a survey commissioned by the Hankyoreh to the firm Global Research, among the 1,000 voters...
- Jan.2,2020 16:36 KST
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- [Photo] New Year’s celebration in Seoul’s Namsangol Hanok Village
- Seoul’s Namsangol Hanok Village is holding a variety of events to celebrate the new year. The village helps visitors celebrate traditional Korean culture through exhibits, films...
- Jan.2,2020 16:32 KST
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- [Special report] Fixing government policy for young people
- As the Hankyoreh met with young South Koreans, what it focused on most was “differentiation.” Experts agreed that the national government should likewise focus on specialization...
- Jan.1,2020 19:32 KST
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- [Special report] S. Korean youth values health and financial stability the most
- The narrative about the grim reality facing South Korean young people was launched by “The 880,000 Won Generation,” a book authored by Woo Seok-hun and Park Gwon-il in 2007. The...
- Jan.1,2020 19:28 KST
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- 75% of younger S. Koreans want to leave country
- Young South Koreas, between the ages of 19 and 34, feel more anxious about life than the older generation, a new study has found. And even among the younger generation, the leve...
- Dec.30,2019 09:56 KST
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- Seniors expected to comprise 49.6% of S. Korean household heads by 2047
- Over 40% of household heads in all South Korean cities and provinces apart from Sejong will be 65 or older by 2047 as societal aging continues, a report predicts. Sejong, home t...
- Dec.30,2019 09:42 KST
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- [Special series] If Korean youth were 100 people
- “If the World Were a Village of 100 People” is a book by the Japanese translator Kayoko Ikeda based on an essay by Donella Meadows, an environmental scientist specializing in de...
- Dec.29,2019 18:25 KST
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- [Special report] S. Korea’s perception of youth exclusively applies to university students
- “Waste” can be defined as the vain or prodigal consumption of one’s time or goods. That’s pretty much how Han Su-jeong (pseudonym), 23, an office worker, thought of university. ...
- Dec.27,2019 19:16 KST
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- S. Korea life expectancy stops increasing for first time since 1970
- “82.7 years.”The rise in South Korea’s average life expectancy has come to a halt for the first time since the National Bureau of Statistics (now Statistics Korea) first began c...
- Dec.27,2019 19:02 KST