Faced with a rapidly aging population and ongoing low birthrate, Korea s non-life insurance sector is planning to create more plans tailored for older adults while strengthening coverages related to pregnancy and childbirth-related illnesses.
Campaign heads of major parties here are causing controversy due to their comments about Argentina and Venezuela, as they each cited the South American countries economic hardships as bad examples that could happen to Korea if voters elect their rivals.
The ruling People Power Party (PPP) sees its narrow lead over the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) diminishing in recent surveys. This is stoking fears among conservatives that Han Dong-hoon, the party leader whose personal popularity helped the moribund ruling party rebound from a major defeat in a district leadership by-election, is now running out of charm just weeks before the April 10 general elections.
Rival parties have selected their candidates for over 80 percent of 254 constituencies for the April 10 general elections through their self-professed fair nomination process, but the finalists do not live up to expectations, falling short of wowing voters.
The Yoon Suk Yeol administration is rolling out various policies aimed at stimulating regional development, despite criticism that it is simply churning out populist measures to curry favor with voters before the April 10 general elections.