Kounseok Lee

Old-age poverty, basic pension policy periods, and late-life suicide in South Korea: a descriptive ecological analysis, 2012–2024

South Korea has exceptionally high old-age poverty and late-life suicide rates. Both declined during a period spanning the 2014 introduction of the Basic Pension and subsequent benefit changes. We described their national trajectories from 2012 to 2024 and compared late-life suic...