SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A person living alone without a spouse faces a higher risk of death than those who live with a spouse, a study showed Thursday. The Asia Cohort Consortium, a large consortium of cohort-based studies in Pacific Rim countries, compared the hazard ratio between 538,377 Asians including South Koreans who [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of elderly individuals living alone in Seoul has exceeded the 350,000 level, data showed Sunday. According to data from Statistics Korea, the number of seniors over 60 years of age living alone in the capital city totaled 355,000 as of 2020, up about 30,000 compared to a [...]
SEJONG, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of seniors living alone has surged nearly 36 percent over the last five years amid the country’s rapid population aging, data showed Monday. A total of 1.66 million South Koreans aged 65 and older lived by themselves in 2020, up 35.8 percent from five years earlier, according [...]
WANJU, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study revealed that older people living alone can reduce depression and suicidal thoughts through social participation. A mental health welfare center in the southwestern county of Wanju, North Jeolla Province carried out a study of 1,065 older people between the ages of 60 and 90 who live [...]
SEJONG, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – More than 3.09 million Korean women live alone, with growing numbers engaged in economic activities, government statistics showed Wednesday. According to Statistics Korea, one-woman households accounted for 50.3 percent of the total 6.14 million single-person households this year. The statistics agency expects the number to continue to rise to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The population movement rate for those in their 70s nearly halved in the past decade, government data showed Wednesday, as a growing number of senior citizens shy away from living with their children even after the death of their spouse. The rate fell to 7.0 percent last year from [...]
SEOUL, Dec.23 (Korea Bizwire) – One out of five seniors in Korea lives alone, and the number is expected to double over the next 20 years. According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, around 1.4 million seniors currently live alone, which is 20.8 percent of the total elderly population. This means that one out [...]