SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of single-person households in Seoul are satisfied with living alone, but struggle with difficulties arising in emergencies, a survey showed Tuesday. The Seoul Metropolitan Government conducted a survey of 3,079 people living alone, of which 86.2 percent were satisfied with solitary life, up by 13 percentage points [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Single-person households tend to spend more on alcohol compared to larger households, a report said Sunday. A research team from the state-run Korea Rural Economic Institute analyzed data from Statistics Korea to identify the average amount of spending on processed foods and the share of each item among the [...]
SEOUL, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — With South Korea entering the age of 1 million “officetels” — multi-purpose buildings with residential and commercial units — it’s becoming more imperative to use them as a housing policy tool for single-person households, a report said Thursday. The Construction and Economy Research Institute of Korea (CERIK) said in [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Gangbuk District Office in Seoul said Wednesday that it will check the safety of the single-person households at risk of solitary death by installing ‘smart plugs’ that make use of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. Officials at the district’s community service centers will visit households and install the devices [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — For Lee Bok-won, a 69-year-old woman who lives alone in western Seoul, stocking up on fresh homemade kimchi during winter has been quite a chore for the past several years. The process, traditionally done by family groups over multiple days, usually involves a painstaking process of soaking a large [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — In the third quarter of last year, which marked the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, single-person households consisting of young people under 40 years of age marked a sharp increase in their spending on drinking and smoking compared to a year earlier. This group’s monthly spending for purchases [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Four out of ten single-person households in South Korea turned out to be dissatisfied with their consumption spending, the country’s statistics office said. The monthly consumption spending of one-person households averaged 1.32 million won (US$1,090) in 2020, according to data from Statistics Korea. This figure is calculated by subtracting [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government said Tuesday it will spend over 5.5 trillion won (US$4.6 billion) over the next five years to solve health, safety and housing problems of single-person households. Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon announced the measure, saying his government will make greater efforts to improve the quality of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Wednesday that it will present a ‘welcome box’ containing a Seoul map and first aid kits to young single-person households who move from other provinces. The welcome boxes will be presented to individuals between 19 and 29 years of age who moved to Seoul [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — ‘Pet rocks’ are gaining popularity as they are going viral on social media. There are currently 1,300 posts on Instagram found under the hashtag #애완돌 (pet rock), most of which are photos of various decorated rocks and stones. The ‘stone keepers’ buy homes to keep the stones in, and [...]