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Number of Households Moving to Rural Areas Hits Record High in 2021: Data

SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of households that moved from urban areas to farming villages reached an all-time high last year amid the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic and soaring housing prices, data showed Thursday. The number of such households came to 377,744 in 2021, up 5.6 percent from a year earlier, according to [...]

More Households Move from Cities for Farming in 2020: Data

SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of urban households in South Korea that moved to provinces to take up farming rose last year, data showed Thursday, as more people searched for new job opportunities outside cities. The number of return-to-farm households came to 12,489 in 2020, up 9.3 percent from a year earlier, [...]