South Korea's gross domestic product (GDP) per person is estimated to have exceeded the US$36,000 mark last year, data showed ...

The government has little to show for the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on pro-natal policies over nearly two decades.

South Korea’s population decline is following the U.N.’s most negative projections, with major implications for the country’s economic future. The obvious path out of South Korea’s ...

The East Asian country posted 240,000 births last year, according to preliminary estimates, boosting the country's fertility ...

and about 80% of them settled in South Korea. Adding to this, a population movement developed from North to South Korea immediately following the liberation and continued through the civil war. The ...

One in five South Koreans is now aged 65 or older, the government said Tuesday. Newsweek contacted the South Korean embassy in Washington D.C. via email for comment outside of office hours.

China said Friday that its population fell for the third straight year in 2024, falling by almost 1.4 million to 1.408 billion. Elsewhere in Asia, Japan’s population has been falling for 15 years , ...

Starbucks hit 2,000 locations in South Korea as of the end of last year, making the country the coffee chain's third-largest ...