total medical care costs projected to reach as much as 191 trillion won ($131 billion) by 2030 — nearly double the nation’s health care spending a decade earlier.

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    2 days ago

    It’s kinda crazy that all the young people in Korea and Japan are like “work conditions are so fucking brutal I don’t have the energy to do anything else”, and then their governments go “hey, I know, the solution is work longer and harder”. Like… what the fuck are they expecting to happen here? They’ve demographically aimed the boat at a waterfall and are pinning the throttle open.