{"id":1802,"date":"2025-06-29T19:50:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T10:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/?p=1802"},"modified":"2025-06-29T19:50:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T10:50:38","slug":"the-rise-of-single-person-household-and-income-inequality-in-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/2025\/06\/29\/the-rise-of-single-person-household-and-income-inequality-in-south-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"The rise of single-person household and income inequality in South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Colloquium in June 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Soo-yeon Moon and Kwang-yeong Sh<\/strong><strong>in (Chung-ang University, Department of Sociology)<\/strong><!-- notionvc: 79869159-15e8-4a47-84f4-b4d0176cb07a --><\/p>\n<p>This paper analyzes the factors affecting the formation of single-person households, and the relationship between single-person households and income inequality.<\/p>\n<p>First, considering that the types and causes of single-person households vary throughout the life course, we analyzed the factors by dividing them into non-married single-person households, divorced single-person households, and widowed single-person households. Differences in the effects of gender, age, region, housing type, income, and assets were found depending on the type of single-person household. In particular, income and assets had a clear impact on unmarried single-person households and divorced single-person households.<\/p>\n<p>Second, income level, level of income inequality, and poverty rate also showed differences depending on the type of single-person household.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, as a result of analyzing the contribution of factors affecting overall income inequality, it was found that single-person households and the non-working population had a critical influence.<\/p>\n<p>In the conclusion, we discuss social policies for each type of single-person household from a life course approach to ensure that the increase in household type does not lead to deepening poverty and inequality.<!-- notionvc: 462c5dfa-ac81-46a2-b74f-6c763928acb9 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colloquium in June 2025 Soo-yeon Moon and Kwang-yeong Shin (Chung-ang University, Department of Sociology) This paper analyzes the factors affecting the formation of single-person households, and the relationship between single-person households and income inequality. First, considering that the types and causes of single-person households vary throughout the life course, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[99,92,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1804,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions\/1804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}