Public opposition is forcing the government of South Korea to backtrack on giving monthly pensions to elderly dual citizens who live abroad more than 60 days a year.
The Seoul government was set to give monthly allowances of between $100 and $200 a month to the poorest 70% of South Koreans aged over 65.
South Koreans with dual citizenship living abroad would have been eligible. But there has been a public outcry saying it is not fair to give the pensions to people who may have spent most of their lives abroad and not paid taxes in South Korea.
