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Worked to the bone: South Korea’s elderly

by Jung Hawon Agence France Presse SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — In theory Park Jae-yeol should have retired 11 years ago. But despite its advanced economy South Korean state pensions are meagre, and the 71-year-old is obliged to continue working, delivering packages to high-rise apartments. He pushes a cartload of brown boxes into a lift at a block of flats in Seoul, his aging eyes strained by constant squinting at tiny address labels. “Money is […]