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The income quartile multiplier, which represents the income gap between the high and low income groups, has been shown to be the worst since statistics. Although the decline in income for low-income people has stopped, the income gap is widening due to the sluggishness of self-employed people.

I'm Hwa Kang Yoon.

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The monthly average disposable income divided by the number of household members surveyed by the National Statistical Office was 866,000 won for the low income level and 4591,000 won for the fifth highest income level.

The fifth quartile scale, which represents the income gap, rose to 5.30.

In comparison to the second quarter, the income gap has been the largest since the statistics began in 2003.

In particular, the 1st percentile earnings dropped sharply by 15.3%, but it was analyzed that the self-employed who failed due to sluggish self-employment fell to the 1st percentile.

[Park Sang-young / Director of the household budget trend: Korea's self-employed people in the second, third and fourth quartiles are falling into the lower income category, as the business continues to fall.

However, the income of the first quartile, which had fallen due to the aging effect, stopped falling in six quarters while maintaining the same figures for the same quarter last year.

The government's efforts to support low-income families, such as raising basic pensions and disability pensions, seemed to have prevented further declines in low-income income, increasing public transfer income by 9.7%.

The government expects that job projects through the Labor Incentive Tax System and the Additional Budget, which will take effect in September, will help improve distribution.