One in five South Koreans is now aged 65 or older, the government said Tuesday. Newsweek contacted the South Korean embassy ...

South Korea has become a "super-aged society", with 20 percent of its population aged 65 or older, official data showed on Tuesday, a gloomy trend driven by an alarmingly low birth rate. Asia's ...

After emerging from the 1950-53 war with North Korea, South Korea emerged as one of ... address challenges arising from its rapidly aging population, inflexible labor market, continued dominance ...

SEOUL (Bernama-Yonhap): South Korea is projected to see its population drop significantly over the next 50 years, and its global population ranking fall by 30 notches over the ultra-low birth rate ...

But the fertility rate remains far below the 2.1 children needed to maintain South Korea's population of 51 million. At current rates, the population will nearly halve to 26.8 million by 2100 ...

Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan.

South Korea has spent billions of dollars to try to stop its population from shrinking, as concerns about career advancement and the financial cost of raising children drive many South Korean ...

The administrative city of Sejong was the only major center where the population grew. South Korea’s population, which hit a peak of 51.83 million in 2020, is expected to shrink to 36.22 ...