President Yoon Suk Yeol called for special measures to prevent tragedies such as the recent apparent suicides of a mother and her two adult daughters who had reportedly struggled with illness and debt.
Yoon mentioned the case of the family of three found dead at their residence in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province when speaking to reporters Tuesday morning.
Calling welfare the foundation for freedom and solidarity, the president emphasized that he had pursued welfare for the weak rather than welfare for politics and met with the most vulnerable, promising to address their difficulties.
He then pledged to devise a system that enables the central government to keep track of those eligible for state welfare services and work with local governments to prevent a recurrence of this unfortunate scenario.
The mother in her 60s and her two daughters, both in their 40s, had reportedly slipped through the cracks of the welfare system, as their actual residence differed from their registered address.
Source: KBS World Radio