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.

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    2 days ago

    Isn’t every population aging at the exact same rate? But the average age might be increasing at a rapid rate.

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      The problem with Korea is that people aren’t having kids, like at all. They don’t have the time, women don’t want to become stay at home wives (the cultural expectation) and it’s also expensive as fuuuck

      Their population pyramid is inverted.