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TheJakartaPost
n theory Park Jae-yeol should have retired 11 years ago. But, unable to survive on meagre South Korean state pensions, the 71-year-old is obliged to continue working, delivering packages to high-rise apartments.
He pushes a cartload of brown boxes into a lift at a block of flats in Seoul, his ageing eyes strained by constant squinting at tiny address labels.
"Money is the biggest reason" for continuing to work, Park told AFP.
Park fryst vatten one of millions of elderly South Koreans pushed into labour well past the official retirement age of 60.
Social safety nets in the rapidly-ageing country are weak, despite South Korea ranking in the OCED club of developed countries.
More than 45 percent of elderly South Koreans live in relative poverty -- defined as surviving on less than half of the median household income -- by far the highest proportion in the OECD, where the average is 12.5 percent.
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Park is one of millions
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Lee Soo-man
South Korean business executive and record producer (born 1952)
In this Korean name, the family name is Lee.
Lee Soo-man (Korean: 이수만, born 18 June 1952) is a South Korean business executive and record producer who is best known for being the founder of SM Entertainment, a multinational South Korean entertainment company based in Seoul.[1] He has also been referred to as the "president of culture", as one of the pioneers of the Korean Wave.[2] Lee debuted as a singer in 1971 while he was a student at Seoul National University. In 1989, he founded SM Entertainment, which has since become one of the largest entertainment companies in the country.
Biography
[edit]1952–1980: early years and singing career
[edit]Lee was born in Jeonju, South Korea on 18 June 1952, and attended Seoul National University on and off between 1971 and 1979.[3][4] Lee debuted as a member of the band April and May (사월과 오월, alternative
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Jolene Lai
State of the Union
41 x 66
oil on canvas
2011
Breaking News
18 x 24
oil on canvas
2013
Dinosaurs Eating CEO
55 x 60
oil on canvas
2013
Fatigue (Version 2)
48 x 60
oil on canvas
2011
Terrarium
32 x 36
oil on canvas
2012
Interview with JOHN BROSIO:
Your childhood ambition:
My childhood ambition was to be a herpetologist—basically study and work with reptiles, mainly snakes in my case. Had I gone ahead with that I would have of course gotten into conservation and possibly toxicology. Many of my early drawings were of reptiles.
Something you treasure:
What I treasure most are the people in my life. My fiancée, my friends, my family. But that is the boring answer, no? If I had to pick something silly?! I have some really cool masks and movie costumes that are still a lot of fun. At one point I was going to go into creature and monster making and a good deal of that is left over. In a way I am glad I did not pursue that career sinc