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Pension Contributions Rising .5% Through 2033
The National Pension contribution rate rose from 9 percent to 9.5 percent on January 1, 2026, the first change since 1998. It will rise by a further 0.5 percentage points every year until it reaches 13 percent in 2033, under the pension reform passed by the National Assembly on March 20, 2025.
Foreign residents employed in Korea are enrolled on the same terms as Korean nationals. Whether any of that money comes back when you leave is a separate question, governed by different rules, and the default answer under Korean law is no.
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42.5! Korea Hits All-Time High Temp as Typhoon Dolphin Nears Peninsula
Yangsan in South Gyeongsang Province reached 42.5 degrees Celsius at 1:26 p.m. on Sunday, August 2. That is the highest temperature ever measured in Korea since modern weather observation began in 1904, surpassing the 41.4 degrees logged at the same station on July 31. It was the fifth straight day Yangsan cleared 40 degrees.
Gamcheon Village Gets Visiting Hours as Busan Confronts Overtourism
Saha-gu formally designated 감천문화마을 (Gamcheon Culture Village) a special management zone on July 31, making it the third such designation in the country after Seoul's Bukchon Hanok Village and Yeoncheon-gun in Gyeonggi-do. The measure divides the village into four zones with different rules, restricts tourist access to residential streets outside the hours of 9am to 6pm, limits vehicle traffic along part of 감내2로, and requires groups of ten or more to buy a map.