Foreword 1. Introduction to retirement in Korea 2. Demographic change in Korea and East Asia 3. The welfare state and income security for the elderly in Korea 4. The legal foundations of mandatory retirement in Korea 5. Korean women and retirement 6. Institutionalization of the Retirement Pension Plan and the limited role of corporatism in Korea 7. National pension, labour market and retirement in Korea: Institutional mismatch and policy alternatives 8. Changing retirement patterns in Japan 9. Retiring immigrants: Korean seniors' lives after migration to Canada 10. The future of retirement

Thomas R. Klassen is a Professor in the Department of Political Science, and the School of Public Policy and Administration, at York University, Canada.

Yunjeong Yang is an Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of International Development Studies at the Graduate School of International and Area Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea.

Using a multi-disciplinary and comparative approach, this book studies the contractual, mandatory retirement trends and policies in South Korea, and in doing so illuminates the political, social, legal, economic and labour market implications of this widespread practice.