Single Households Account for 27.8% of South Korean Families

SEJONG, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of one-person families continued to rise in South Korea last year amid the fast-spreading trend of people remaining single, government data showed Wednesday. Households consisting of a single member totaled 5.28 million in 2016, up 3.3 percent, or 169,000, from the previous year, according to the data [...]