{
  "id": 5045238,
  "title": "Korea seeks to toughen pension eligibility for foreign residents as loophole found",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/02/korea-seeks-to-toughen-pension-eligibility-for-foreign-residents-as",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-02T08:22:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Korea Times",
    "slug": "the-korea-times",
    "url": "https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/society/20260902/korea-seeks-to-toughen-pension-eligibility-for-foreign-residents-as-loophole-found"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The government is tightening regulations on the national pension following concerns that a legal loophole could let foreign residents unfairly secure old-age pension benefits. It is considering limiting a retroactive payment system only to foreign nationals whose countries also provide reciprocal measures to Koreans in those nations. The controversy emerged recently as some foreign nationals were…",
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      {
        "outlet": "The Korea Times",
        "title": "Korea seeks to toughen pension eligibility for foreign residents as loophole found",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/02/korea-seeks-to-toughen-pension-eligibility-for-foreign-residents-as-5046682",
        "published": "2026-09-02T08:32:03.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}