Among OECD countries, South Korea’s public sector finances a lower proportion of the country’s health expenditures, resulting in high out-of-pocket payments for healthcare.
South Korea’s hard-earned opportunity to regain its position in global nuclear power exports should be carefully managed and leveraged.
The MZ Generation’s preferences and perceptions will have considerable influence over South Korea’s policies on unification.
The aging population will reduce productive capacity faster than capital accumulation and pronatalist policies can compensate.
Rapid demographic change makes it essential to improve the efficiency of Korea’s healthcare system to contain the rise in spending.
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol offered a dramatically different vision of Korean unification in his Liberation Day speech on August 15.
A troubling question remains whether the historical past of Japan’s colonial rule over Korea will again roil relations.
K-Bangsan is set to assume a larger presence in the global market next year, including for major NATO countries and partners.
While South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is in Washington for the NATO summit, Texas Governor Greg Abbott arrived in Seoul.
Expanded healthcare has improved health conditions; however, a number of issues, including doctor shortages, suggest the need for reforms.