Nov. 11

• ●Don't Koreans have kids anymore? (Korea JoongAng Daily)
  Will Korea become th first nation to go extinct?

Nov. 12

• ●Despite low birth rates, preschool 'enrollment war' remains fierce (Korea JoongAng Daily)
  Korea as a nation may be faced with record-low fertility rates and a declining population.
  
  

• ●Can AI rescue Korea's aging society from the abyss? (Korea JoongAng Daily)
  Can AI save Korea from extinction?
  
  

• ●Air pollution causes 43 premature deaths per 100,000 population in Korea (The Korea Herald)
  Poor air quality contributed to about 1 1/2 times more premature deaths in South Korea than the average of countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, data showed Sunday.

Nov. 13

• ●[Graphic News] Nearly 40,000 S. Koreans die by suicide over past 3 years: data (The Korea Herald)
  Nearly 40,000 South Koreans took their own lives over the past three years, with the suicide rate increasing among the younge generation, data showed.
  
  

• ●Korea to maintain 52-hour workweek (The Korea Times)
  The government has decided to maintain the current 52-hour workweek system.

Nov. 14

• ●Gov't Scraps Plan to Increase Workweek to 69 Hours (The Chosunilbo)
  The government has scrapped a plan to increase the legal limit of the working week from 52 to 69 hours but will leave it up to employers and workers to ease it if both agree.
  
  

• ●Patients in Korea have lowest chance of asking doctors questions (The Korea Herald)
  Park, 61, had a long list of questions he wanted to ask about his health and what he should do to recover after being diagnosed with heart failutre, a chronnic condition in which the heart muscle doesn't pump blood as well as it should.

Nov. 16

• ●Number of middle-aged 'boomerang kids' rising (Korea JoongAng Daily)
  The so-called boomerang kids--adults living with their parents for financial reasons--are not confined to 20-somethings or 30-somethings in Korea.
  
  

• ●Megacity Seoul could 'counter rural extinction': Seoul mayor (The Korea Herald)
  Regarding the recent megacity plan involving expanding Seoul's administrative boundaries to include several neighboring cities in Gyeonggi Province, Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon said during a regular Seoul Metropolitan Council meeting on Thursday that it could counter rural extinction.
  
  

• ●Even amid high employment, 1 in 20 young Koreans say they're "taking a break" from job-seeking (Hankyoreh)
  "I have job-hunting my all, but now I'm burned out and don't feel like challenging myself."

Nov. 17

• ●Korean Doctors Treat Most Number of Patients Annually Among OECD Countries (The Chosunilbo)
  Findings show a Korean doctor treats more than 6,000 patients each year.
  
  

• ●Teens try to piece together lives after gambling addiction (The Korea Times)
  A 15-year-old boy said he wishes he could turn the clock back to before he began gambling, as he has been staying in the remote rural village of Muju for a treatment program after losing more than 100 million won ($76,934) to gambling.