It's nice living alone - number of single-person households surpasses 6 million, says Korean data

SEOUL, Nov 8 (The Korea Herald/ANN): The number of people residing alone hit more than 6 million as of this year as the prolonged Covid-19 (coronavirus) pandemic accelerated a stay-at-home trend while shifting interests towards stock investment from savings, an industry report showed on Sunday.

According to KB Financial Group’s report on single-person households in South Korea, the tally for one-person households reached 6.17 million, which accounts for 30.3 percent of all households.