South Korea

=== Health ===
{{Main|Health in South Korea}}
[[File:Life expectancy in North Korea and South Korea.svg|thumb|Development of life expectancy in North Korea and South Korea]]
South Korea has a [[universal health care]] system.<ref>{{in lang|fr}} [http://www.keepeek.com/Digital-Asset-Management/oecd/social-issues-migration-health/health-at-a-glance-2015_health_glance-2015-en#page26 Health at a Glance 2015 |OECD READ edition] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180207185357/http://www.keepeek.com/Digital-Asset-Management/oecd/social-issues-migration-health/health-at-a-glance-2015_health_glance-2015-en#page26 |date=7 February 2018 }}. Keepeek.com. Retrieved 20 June 2016.</ref> According to the Health Care Index ranking, it has the world's best healthcare system as of 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ireland |first=Sophie |date=27 April 2021 |title=Revealed: Countries With The Best Health Care Systems, 2021 |url=https://ceoworld.biz/2019/08/05/revealed-countries-with-the-best-health-care-systems-2019/ |access-date=28 March 2024 |archive-date=17 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210417211824/https://ceoworld.biz/2019/08/05/revealed-countries-with-the-best-health-care-systems-2019/ |url-status=live }}</ref> South Korean hospitals have advanced medical equipment and facilities readily available, ranking 4th for [[MRI]] units per capita and 6th for [[CT scanner]]s per capita in the OECD.<ref>{{in lang|fr}} [http://www.keepeek.com/Digital-Asset-Management/oecd/social-issues-migration-health/health-at-a-glance-2015_health_glance-2015-en#page28 Health at a Glance 2015 |OECD READ edition] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180207185357/http://www.keepeek.com/Digital-Asset-Management/oecd/social-issues-migration-health/health-at-a-glance-2015_health_glance-2015-en#page28 |date=7 February 2018 }}. Keepeek.com. Retrieved 20 June 2016.</ref> It also had the OECD's [[List of countries by hospital beds|second largest number of hospital beds per 1000 people]] at 9.56 beds. [[Life expectancy]] has been rising rapidly and South Korea [[List of countries by life expectancy|ranked 6th in the world for life expectancy]] at 83.5 years in 2023.<ref>{{cite web |date=19 May 2016 |title=Life expectancy increased by 5 years since 2000, but health inequalities persist |url=https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2016/health-inequalities-persist/en/ |publisher=WHO |access-date=28 March 2024 |archive-date=22 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180422083122/http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2016/health-inequalities-persist/en/ |url-status=live }}</ref> It also has the [[List of countries by life expectancy|third highest health adjusted life expectancy]] in the world.<ref>{{cite web |title=WHO – World Health Statistics 2016: Monitoring health for the SDGs |url=https://www.who.int/gho/publications/world_health_statistics/2016/Annex_B/en/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160523041026/http://www.who.int/gho/publications/world_health_statistics/2016/Annex_B/en/ |archive-date=23 May 2016 |website=WHO}}</ref> [[Suicide in South Korea]] is the [[List of countries by suicide rate|12th highest in the world]] according to the [[World Health Organization]], as well as the highest suicide rate in the [[OECD]].<ref>{{cite AV media |date=13 March 2021 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikx0T9wMWXg |title=Why South Korea has high suicide rates |publisher=KOREA NOW |via=[[YouTube]] |access-date=7 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210808001505/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikx0T9wMWXg |archive-date=8 August 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.MHSUICIDEASDR?lang=en |title=Suicide rates, age standardized – Data by country |publisher=[[World Health Organization]] |year=2015 |access-date=13 April 2017 |archive-date=18 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171018170407/http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.MHSUICIDEASDR?lang=en |url-status=live }}</ref>