Sept. 16

• ●[WHY] Where have all the pediatricians gone in Korea? (Korea JoongAng Daily)
  Korean parents are on the hunt for pediatricians. Tkae Kim Ji-eun, a 34-year-old mother of two girls living in Seoul.

Sept. 17

• ●Private education fees for preschoolers, kindergarteners up 38%: study (The Korea Herald)
  Private education spending among households with preschoolers or kindergarteners has increased by 38 percent in the last five years, a report showed Sunday.
  
  

Sept. 18

• ●A third of Korean households made up of single people (The Korea Herald)
  The landscape of Korean families has changed quite significantly over the last few decades, with one-third of the households in the country now made up of single people and a fertility rate that has halved, government data showed Monday.
  
  

• ●Korea criticized for backpedaling on foreign workforce policy (The Korea Times)
  Korea is set to shut down support centers that help foreign wokers settle in the country as part of a broader belt-tightening fiscal policy.
  
  

• ●Korea Lacks Housing Provisions for Fast-Aging Society (The Chosunilbo)
  Signum Haus is an assisted living complex of 2030 units for elderly residents in Jagok-dong in Seoul's upscale district of Gangnam, which is equipped with a healthcare facility, a fitness center, ...

Sept. 19

• ●20 companies pay fines rather than pay for day care (The Korea Herald)
  Twenty workplaces in Korea have failed to set up day care centers for employees' children in the last five years, even though they face fines of up to 200 million won ($153,000) per year if they keep failing to provide them, government data showed Tuesday.
  
  

• ●What drove teachers, once revered, to despair? (The Korea Herald)
  On decline of teachers' authority, experts point to rule changes regarding student rights, heavy reliance on private education and overprotective parents traumatized by past teacher abuse

Sept. 20

• ●Korea Suffers Shortage of Organ Donors (The Chosunilbo)
  Fewer and fewer Koreans are willing to donate their organs so they can be used for life-saving transplants in case of their death.

Sept. 21

• ●No. of dementia patients set to surpass 1m this year (The Korea Herald)
  As South Korea's population ages at a rapid pace, the number of dementia patients in the country is also rising quickly, projected to exceed one million for the first time this year.

• ●Cancer, heart disease among major causes of death in 2022 (Yonhap News)
  Cancer and heart diseases were among the major causes of death for South Koreans in 2022, data showed Thursday, with the total number of deaths hitting a new record.

• ●Vulnerable People Urged to Get Free Flu Shots (The Chosunilbo)
  Korea's annual flu vaccination campaign for high-risk groups of children, pregnant women and the elderly began Wednesday.

Sept. 22

• ●Koreans Have 2nd Shortest Sleep in the World (The Chosunilbo)
  Koreans sleep less than their peers in other countries, a study shows.
  
  

• ●Death Increased Dramatically Last Year (The Chosunilbo)
  The number of deaths in Korea jumped 17.6 percent to 373,000 last year, the most on record.
  
  

• ●Ministry uncovers 1,802 Youth Protection Act violations (The Korea Herald)
  More than 1,800 breaches of the country's Youth Protection Act were found during a nationwide government inspection of downtown areas to examine whether operations met requirements.