(This May 2024 Chosun Ilbo article distorted the position of Yoon Seok-myeong, Honorary Research Fellow at the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs!)

Pension specialists urged the National Assembly to reach agreement on at least a 44.5% income replacement rate.

(Honorary Research Fellow Yoon Seok-myeong had, more forcefully than anyone else, consistently argued that raising the income replacement rate constitutes a change for the worse.

Nevertheless, this article was reported in a manner that misleadingly suggested he was in favor of raising the income replacement rate!

This is a representative case of reporting that goes beyond inaccuracy to constitute outright distortion.)

Yoon Seok-myeong, Honorary Research Fellow at the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA), stated that "if the current majority of middle-aged and older generations delays pension reform or restructures it in a manner favorable only to themselves, they may face a 'pension goryeojang'—a drastic reduction of benefits imposed by the younger generations who will have grown to majority by that time."

https://www.chosun.com/national/welfare-medical/2024/05/22/TR25YMPLSJFZVIYZA4E4PMCYWY/