Job seekers crowd a job fair for middle-aged and older workers in Seoul's Guro District, June 16. Yonhap
Park, a 62-year-old nurse at a long-term care hospital in Seoul, is in no hurry to retire.
After raising her children, she returned to the workforce in her 50s, putting a nursing license she had obtained years earlier to use.
Nearly a decade later, she still has no plans to retire.
"I'll start receiving my pension in a few years, but it won't be enough to support the kind of retirement I'd like, so I'd rather keep working," she said. "Besides, work keeps me active. Staying at home all day isn't for me, and I enjoy meeting people. I'd like to keep working for as long as I'm physically able."
