Ko Myung-hee starts the engine of her SUV with bags full of fresh vegetables picked from her own garden and two ice-cold bottles of sikhye – a sweet rice drink. It’s 9am and the 52-year-old senior care administrator in South Korea’s northernmost province of Paju sets out to visit some of the area’s dokgeo-noin – senior citizens living alone. And she doesn’t like to arrive empty-handed.There are more than 740,000 South Korean seniors living alone and a study conducted by the welfare ministry…
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