SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent analysis has revealed that 80% of individuals living alone are at risk of ‘lonely death’, with one in four to five solo dwellers being classified as in the ‘medium to high-risk’ group. This finding comes from a survey conducted by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – As “godoksa,” or solitary death, becomes a pressing social concern, a recent survey unveils that the average South Korean believes there is a 32 percent chance of facing such a fate. Godoksa refers to an isolated demise, where an individual passes away alone, disconnected from family, relatives, and others, with [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Currently, there are 50,000 households in Seoul that are at risk of solitary death, the city government said Monday. According to the Seoul Metropolitan Government, surveys conducted in 2021 and 2022 revealed that 52,718 out of 84,526 individuals were exposed to the risk of solitary death. When categorized by [...]
SEOUL, April 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government’s welfare foundation said Monday it will launch a “safety check” service on a trial basis for 1,000 households at risk of solitary death in Gwanak District. As part of the service, the foundation will verify the risk of solitary death in advance for socially isolated [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — With the winter cold and the coronavirus pandemic sweeping across the country, many struggling individuals living in low-cost boarding housing facilities known as gosiwons or old residential districts have passed away. Most of them died a solitary death, a financially stricken single-person household living off of basic welfare. On Dec. 28, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A district in Seoul offered milk delivery as an idea to prevent solitary death among senior citizens. Songpa District said Thursday it will launch a milk delivery business next month to help keep an eye on senior citizens. According to the plan, milk will be delivered three times a [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — “Lonely death” or “solitary death” stereotypically conjures up images of a greying, elderly person dying alone and unattended, their corpse lying in their room undiscovered for weeks on end, but figures collected by the health authorities suggest that men in their 50s, not 60 and 70-year olds, are most [...]