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What Other Countries Can Learn from South Korea’s Ageing Strategy
South Korea’s exceptionally rapid demographic transition has forced ageing policy, Long-Term Care Insurance, community support, digital infrastructure and local delivery to evolve under intense time pressure. This article examines the most important lessons from that experience for other countries, distinguishing genuinely transferable principles from features shaped by Korea’s own institutions, financing, technology, family structures and administrative system. Read more...
Building a New Social Contract for Longevity in South Korea
South Korea’s transition to a longevity society raises questions that extend far beyond long-term care capacity. This article examines how responsibility could be recalibrated across the state, Long-Term Care Insurance, health services, municipalities, employers, communities, families and citizens, creating a more sustainable settlement around prevention, care, income, participation, technology and intergenerational fairness. Read more...
South Korea’s Vision for Community Care Beyond 2040
South Korea’s demographic transformation means community care beyond 2040 cannot be designed simply as a larger version of today’s long-term care system. This article examines how integrated care, prevention, housing, workforce reform, digital infrastructure and local governance could combine into a more sustainable longevity system, while distinguishing established reforms from the choices South Korea will still need to make over the next two decades. Read more...
Digital Government and Integrated Care Data for South Korea’s Ageing and Long-Term Care System
South Korea’s digital infrastructure creates important opportunities to connect health, long-term care and community support around older people, but integrated care requires more than connecting databases. This article examines how national systems, the National Health Insurance Service, municipalities and frontline services can turn data into coordinated decisions while protecting privacy, maintaining accountability and ensuring that digital integration improves continuity rather than simply increasing information flows. Read more...
Building Climate Resilience and Emergency Planning for Older Adults Across South Korea
South Korea’s rapid population ageing is changing what effective climate resilience and emergency planning require. This article examines how heatwaves, floods, wildfires and other hazards intersect with long-term care, municipal welfare, health services and community support, and explores how national preparedness can be translated into locally coordinated protection that preserves the safety, autonomy and continuity of older people. Read more...
Public Health, Prevention and Healthy Ageing in South Korea
South Korea’s ageing challenge cannot be addressed through long-term care expansion alone. This article examines how public health, chronic disease prevention, functional health, community infrastructure and local health services can help people remain healthier and independent for longer, while exploring the governance, data and investment choices needed to make prevention a meaningful part of an ageing society. Read more...
Preventing Loneliness and Strengthening Community Participation in South Korea’s Ageing Society
Loneliness among older adults in South Korea is increasingly a question of community infrastructure, service design and social participation rather than simply individual wellbeing. This article examines how living alone, family change, local welfare systems, senior employment, community programs, technology and care services interact, and what stronger prevention requires as South Korea develops a more community-based model of ageing. Read more...
Housing Innovation for Older Adults in South Korea: Designing Homes for Independence, Care and Longevity
South Korea’s ageing transition is turning housing into a central part of long-term care strategy. This article examines public senior housing, housing adaptation, service-connected homes, emerging private models and the relationship between housing, integrated care and community infrastructure, showing why sustainable ageing in place depends on more than building additional accommodation. Read more...
Workforce Sustainability in South Korea’s Ageing Society: Building Care Capacity for the Decades Ahead
South Korea’s rapidly ageing population is turning long-term care workforce sustainability into a central question of social and economic policy. This article examines recruitment, retention, pay, skills, career pathways, migration, technology, regional inequality and family caregiving, showing why future workforce strategy must connect Long-Term Care Insurance financing with better jobs, stronger productivity and reliable access to community support. Read more...
Financing Long-Term Care for Future Generations in South Korea
South Korea’s Long-Term Care Insurance system transformed care for older people by sharing responsibility more broadly across society. Rapid population ageing now makes its next financing settlement equally important. This article examines contribution revenues, public funding, personal payments, service costs, prevention, workforce pressures and intergenerational equity, asking how South Korea can preserve meaningful long-term care entitlement while adapting financing and delivery for a much older society. Read more...
Smart Cities and Age-Friendly Urban Design: Building South Korean Communities for Longer Lives
South Korea’s rapid ageing is changing what successful urban development means. This article examines how smart-city infrastructure, accessible transport, walkable neighbourhoods, public space, community services and digital systems can work together to support independence, participation and ageing in place — while ensuring that technology-led urban development remains inclusive of older people with different abilities, incomes and levels of digital confidence. Read more...
Digital Health, Telecare and Remote Monitoring in South Korea’s Ageing Care System
South Korea’s digital infrastructure creates significant opportunities to support older people beyond hospitals and clinics, but technology only improves care when monitoring, clinical response, long-term care and local support connect around the person. This article examines telemedicine, remote monitoring, public-health digital services, data governance and workforce implications, and considers how South Korea can turn digital capability into reliable community-based support. Read more...