작년 1인 가구 600만 돌파…1인 가구 중 40%는 미취업 상태<br /><br />More people are choosing to live alone in this country, it show.<br />The number of single-person households in South Korea topped 6 million last year... mainly on people getting married later and older individuals living alone.<br />Four out of ten one-person households remained unemployed.<br />Yoon Jung-min reports.<br />The number of people who live alone in South Korea rapidly increased last year,... while four out of ten remained unemployed.<br />The number of one-person households in the country tallied at over 6-million as of October 2019,... jumping 4-point-3 percent on-year.<br />The number of single-person dwellings made up almost 30-percent of all households, up point-7 percentage points from a year ago.<br />Statistics Korea said the figures increased because younger people who live alone tend to get married relatively late,... and there are more older people living alone.<br />The data showed that among those people, around 60-percent were working,... while the other 40-percent were not.<br />This is because those over the age of 60 make up a large proportion of the single-person households, and they tend to be unemployed.<br />By age group, people aged between the ages of 50 and 64 accounted for the largest share with more than 27-percent.<br />Meanwhile, the smallest was people over the age of 65 at just 11-percent.<br />Those who have worked for at least one hour a week were counted as employed, regardless of their age.<br />Most ran businesses or worked in public service sectors,... followed by wholesale, retails and food sectors.<br />Yoon Jung-min, Arirang News.<br />
