상•하위 20% 소득 모두 2%씩↓<br /><br />The monthly average income of the bottom bracket declined by two and a half percent on-year to around 1-thousand U.S. dollars... due to a fall in wages.<br />However, Statistics Korea explained, the income gap between the top and bottom 20 percent narrowed slightly in the first quarter... to 5-point-8 percent.<br />That's an improvement from near six percent tallied in the same period last year.<br />Those in the upper bracket saw their wages fall 2-point-2 percent to about 84-hundred dollars,... the first decline since 2015. <br />