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S. Korea's income gap narrows slightly in Q1

2019-05-23 5 Dailymotion

1분기 소득 분배 개선…상•하위 20% 소득 모두 2%씩↓<br /><br />The gap in incomes between Korea's top and bottom 20 percent narrowed slightly in the first quarter.<br />Statistics Korea says the monthly average income of the bottom 20 percent bracket declined by 2-point-five percent on-year to around 1-thousand U.S. dollars.<br />Those in the upper 20 percent bracket saw their incomes fall 2-point-two percent to about 84-hundred dollars,... the first decline for them since 2015.<br />That means the ratio comparing the disposable incomes of bottom and top... was 5-point-8 percent... an improvement from the 5-point-9-5 percent tallied in the same period last year.<br />It's the first time since 2015 that the figure has fallen. <br />

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