S. Koreans reluctant to pay unification cost with North

SEOUL: While more than 70 percent of South Koreans support eventual unification with North Korea, almost half have no interest in helping cover the massive estimated financial cost, a survey said on Wednesday.

The poll of 1,001 people found that 72 percent backed the idea of a unified Korean peninsula, although 46 percent said the merger should be a “gradual” rather than a swift process.