‘Yogurt ladies’ deliver companionship to the elderly in South Korea | South China Morning Post

Kang Mi-sook, 62, is one of South Korea’s approximately 11,000 ‘yogurt ladies’ who deliver small bottles of yogurt directly to the homes of elderly people who live alone. The programme checks up on the increasing number of elderly people in South Korea who suffer from loneliness and poverty and is a partnership betw…

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