45세에 노동소득 가장 많아…59세부터는 '적자 인생'<br /><br />New data show that South Koreans reach their peak earnings at the age of 45.<br />That's according to Statistics Korea, which says that in 2017,... the average income of a 45-year-old was around 31-thousand U.S. dollars.<br />The data showed that South Koreans on average make more than they spend between the ages of 28 and 58.<br />But from age 59, spending starts to outpace earnings due to healthcare costs.<br />Also in 2017, taxes paid by the working age population between the ages of 15 and 64<br />amounted to roughly 116 billion dollars.<br />And in a sign of Korea's ageing population, a little over half of that amount was spent on senior citizens through the national healthcare and pension systems.<br />
