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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    Korea and Japan are suffering from a lack of immigration. Immigrants are literally just an injection of younger working age people. I won’t try to explain the racism and nationalism between east Asian countries. But, I feel like the way the world is going, worrying about 2030 projections based on the world not being a complete fuck fest by then. Well, I think we more pressing concerns. Like, the US actively starting WW3.

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      SK might turn its boat but Japan is so deeply xenophobic that they’ll rather go extinct or try invent a robot nurse rather than allow immigrants