Jan. 3

• ●Young Koreans warming to marriage again The Korea Herald
  Young Koreans who had shunned dating and marriage in recent years are beginning to change their minds.

Jan. 4

• ●Over 20% of S. Koreans 65 and older in 2025: data The Korea Herald
  A little over 1 in every 5 South Koreans was 65 or older in 2025, data showed Sunday, as the country moved deeper into the "super-aged society" category.
  
  

• ●People 65 or older now make up more than 21% of Korea's population Korea JoongAng Daily
  People aged 65 or older now account for more than 21 percent of Korea's population, officially marking the onset of a super-aged society.

Jan. 5

• ●Seven in 10 disabled Koreans are jobless: report The Korea Herald
  Fewer than 3 in 10 South Koreans with physical or mental disabilities were employed in 2024, and nearly half of those who did work earned less than 2 million won ($1,380) a month, a report by a state-affiliated think tank showed Monday.
  
  

• ●AI chatbot vulnerabililty produces unsafe medical recommendations, Korean research team finds Korea JoongAng Daily
  As more people turn to generative AI chatbots for medical advice, researchers are warning that many widely used models can be easily manipulated to give dangerous recommendations.

Jan. 6

• ●Facelifts and facials help Korean doctors go global The Korea Herald
  South Korean medical professionals are expanding overseas rapidly, led by dermatology and plastic survery, government data showed Tuesday.

Jan. 7

• ●How expensive is a lifetime of Korean health care? The Korea Herald
  Koreans spend nearly 250 million won ($173,000) per person on medical care over the course of their lives, with such costs becoming increasingly concentrated in old age, according to a new analysis by the National Health Insurance Service.
  
  

• ●Half of students sleep under 6 hours a night: study The Korea Herald
  Nearly half of South Korean high school students are sleeping less than six hours a night, and almost 1 in 3 has contemplated suicide, according to a new government-backed study that points to relentless academic pressure as a central aggravating factor.

Jan. 8

• ●Still paying for children, middle-aged Koreans not ready for retirement The Korea Herald
  Retirement anxiety is growing among South Koreans in their 40s and 50s.
  
  

• ●Is Korea ready for an era of aging drivers? The Korea Herald
  The investigation into a deadly January traffic accident in central Seoul is sharpening attention on how South Korea regulates older drivers, amid mounting evidence that traffic fatalities involving seniors are rising faster than overall accidents.
  
  

• ●Hwaseong City Leads Births Nationwide Third Year The Chosun Daily
  The city with the most births nationwide last year was Hwaseong City, Gyeonggi Province.
  
  

• ●30 Districts Delay Integrated Care Project The Chosun Daily
  The Integrated Care Project, a key national task of the Lee Jae-myung government, is set to begin in March, but 30 out of 229 districts nationwide have yet to enact related ordinances.
  
  

• ●Half of South Korean high schoolers get less than 6 hours of sleep a day The Korea Times
  About half of all high school students in Korea sleep less than six hours a day due to demanding study schedules.

Jan. 9

• ●Buying time: How outsourcing housework became a survival strategy for young Koreans The Korea Herald
  For Jeong, a 30-year-old office worker living alone in Seoul's Mapo-gu, cleaning used to be something squeezed in between work and exhaustion.
  
  

• ●Restaurants serve up job opportunities for people with borderline intellectual functioning, disabilities Korea JoongAng Daily
  At a tiny basement restaurant in Ansan, Gyeonggi, a young adult greets customers at a self-service kiosk.
  
  

• ●Korea's health care costs set to double by 2030 as population ages rapidly The Korea Times
  As Korea's population quickly ages, pressure is mounting on the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS), with total medical care costs projected to reach as much as 191 trillion won ($131 billion) by 2030--nearly double the nation's health care spending a decade earlier.