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1. Korea's Retirement Predicament

   The Ageing Tiger

   Edited by Thomas R. Klassen, Yunjeong Yang

   Series: Routledge Advances in Korean Studies

   The distinguishing feature for many workers in South Korea is contractual – and often involuntary – retirement at a young age (mid-50s for most workers) followed by precarious and low-paying self-employment or contract work. In the past this practice, which is also found in other East Asian nations...

   To Be Published August 1st 2013 by Routledge
2. Retirement, Work and Pensions in Ageing Korea

   Edited by Jae-Jin Yang, Thomas Klassen

   Series: Routledge Advances in Korean Studies

   Even among the four Asian tigers, with their economic miracles during the past several decades that allowed them to join the ranks of the developed nations, South Korea is extraordinary. As significant as its economic progress, from a dirt poor and devastated nation in the 1960s, is South Korea’s...

   Published January 31st 2010 by Routledge