Trend Everyday insecurity deepens under rapid ageing, polarisation, uneven care and poor working conditions

Summary

The plan observes that instability across people's lives is deepening in Korea. It attributes this trend to rapid population ageing and social polarisation. It also points to regional disparities in medical resources and care services, which leave access dependent on where people live. Long working hours and continuing wage arrears are named as further sources of insecurity in working life. From this diagnosis the plan concludes that the state should move toward a basic society that guarantees care, income, health care, work and life balance and rights at work.