SEOUL, Jun. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s bottled water market was valued at 740 billion won (US$656 million) last year, up 15.5 percent from the previous year amid the increase in the number of one-person households and demand for clean water, industry data showed Wednesday. According to the data from Nielson Korea, some 640 [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Slightly more than 24 percent of homes in Seoul are made up of just one person, with the rate expected to hit 30 percent in 2035, a metropolitan government survey showed Sunday. The latest figures regarding household sizes in Seoul during 2010 were released in the March edition of [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) – A government survey confirmed Wednesday many one-person households here have abnormal eating habits and are vulnerable to malnutrition. One in three people living alone skip breakfast, according to the Korea Rural Economic Institute, a state-funded think tank. It conducted a survey of 500 single-person households and the same number [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 17, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – A study said the rise in the number of one-person households has contributed to increasing the overall consumption. According to a report “Single Households Change the Landscape of Consumption” published by LG Economic Research Institute on April 7, by the year 2020 the consumption increase attributed to [...]