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 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The government plans to expand support for single-person households. The Ministry of Gender and Equality said Tuesday that it will begin a new project for community-building among single-person households as problems of isolation or depression are rising as a social issue. Individuals living alone will now be able to [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s young single-person households living on monthly rent are paying more than 300,000 won (US$265) in monthly rent on average, data showed Monday. The actual monthly housing expenses for the nation’s young (less than 30 years old) single-person households averaged 315,534 won in the first quarter of this [...]
SEOUL, March 26 (Korea Bizwire) — State-run Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) will be introducing a caretaking service for single-person households to prevent solitary deaths. KEPCO signed a memorandum of understanding with Jeju City and SK Telecom Co. to provide a big data-based social security service on Thursday. This new service will conduct an artificial [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Lee Min-hyung, a 27-year-old graduate student, started a new hobby this year – taking pictures of the food he made in his rented room and uploading them to social media. After the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, he has refrained from eating out and instead decided to cook food [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Single-person households in the vast majority of regions in South Korea are projected to account for more than 30 percent of all households by 2047. The KB Financial Group’s research unit published a report on single-person households in South Korea on Monday. The institute conducted a survey of 2,000 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul’s single-person households throw away about 30 pieces of disposable items per day on average, more than twice as much as the average multi-person household. According to a survey conducted by the Seoul Digital Foundation, the quantity of disposable packaging materials such as styrofoam thrown away by single-person households [...]