South Korea is being urged to allocate more government funds to strengthen the nation's income distribution.<br /> According to a new report by the OECD, South Korea's relative poverty rate in 2015 or the proportion of people earning less than half their country's median income was 17-point-seven percent by market income or total wages and salaries before tax,... but 13-point-eight percent by disposable income after tax.<br />The OECD says that means the South Korean government's fiscal contribution to income distribution was 22 percent in 2015.<br />The figure was far below the OECD average of almost 57 percent. <br />
