One-third of households in Korea only have one person
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One third of households in Korea are single households, a new record.
Most are either young or old.
According to Statistics Korea, in 2021, 7.17 million Koreans were living alone.
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Four out of 10 households in South Korea are projected to be single-person by 2040, with the portion of families of four or more – once the most common form of family here – shrinking to 10 percent, a report showed Monday.
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In South Korea, women now find marriage to be an unattractive option. The country is still known to be a patriarchal society where women are expected to be the ones to give way and prioritize taking familial responsibility, taking more of the burden in housework and childcare, but highly educated women have now found this unattractive after discovering they gain more opportunities outside of marriage.
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The single-person setup now accounts for almost one-third of households in the advanced economies and highly urbanized countries in Asia. A 2010-2019 Euromonitor International report showed that the single-person household was the fastest-growing household type globally, expanding by 31% with nearly half this growth in absolute numbers attributable to the Asia Pacific region.
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In Finland, 47 percent of households are single person, Sweden 45.4 percent and German 42.1 percent.
Japan and France both had a single-person household ratio of 38 percent.
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The number of single-person households without children in the EU increased by 28.5 % between 2009 and 2021.
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The total number of households in the EU rose by 9.5 % between 2009 and 2021. However, single adult households (i.e. households comprising only one adult, living with or without children) increased much faster, by 27.4 % in the same period.
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In China, the implementation of the one-child policy from 1980 to 2016 resulted in an extremely low birth rate and a rapidly aging population, leading to the change in the Chinese household. Moreover, a continuously plummeting marriage rate is also attributed to single men outnumbering single women. This gave way to many people having a chance for an improvement of personal housing conditions, leading to the growth of single-person households that became more prominent during the 2000s. Today, more than 240 million people in China are single adults and 15% of the Chinese household market are single-householders.
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Of course, this decision has many other underlying reasons for each country. There have been creative ways for them to get a match but factors such as age gaps and financial burdens also hindered dating prospects. What¡¯s fascinating is that there is a common ground or reason for the single-household market across the three countries on why the new market chose singlehood.
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To give you an idea about this market, a big portion of the age scale of the group belong to the digital natives, the generation born between 1980 and 2012 - the so-called Millennial and Gen Z. These two generations also account for over one-third of Asia's overall consumption. The most popular characteristic of these groups is that they are eager for new experiences. They aspire to learn, interact, engage, and live with the feeling they¡¯ve bettered themselves.
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This experience-focused lifestyle is the common reason why many young single-householders are staying single and even sometimes rule out marriage altogether. Of course, living expenses such as housing and building a family that is continuously becoming more expensive are major factors in the economy that push the emergence of single living, especially in highly-urbanized areas.
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