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Reporter Kwon Ae-ri is here on Monday.
Reporter Kwon, looking at the appearance of single-person households in our society, is it that the proportion of voluntary single-person households is gradually increasing recently?
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Yes.
When it comes to single-person households, you often think of single men and women in a young, free city that seems to appear in a drama, but in fact, more than one in four people who still become single households are people in their 60s or older who have died from their spouse.
The main reason for the increase in single-person households at the stage of entering a nuclear family and aging society is that they were not voluntary.
In particular, the proportion of single-person female households with a longer life expectancy was high, and the number of single-person households voluntarily increased. I've come to this half and half level.
The rate of increase in households for one person in their 20s is also fast.
There are problems with studying abroad or working, but I can see the atmosphere of becoming independent earlier than before.
So, the number of young and voluntary single-person households that appear in dramas is actually increasing a lot.
However, there were a number of reasons other than freedom. The KB Research Institute conducted an in-depth survey on 2,000 single-person households in cities where such people account for a large proportion along with an analysis of the total population data in Korea.
It was targeted to people aged 25 to 59 who made their own decisions about how to roll their own money with a monthly income of at least 1 million won.
However, compared to just a year ago, the number of women in their 20s and men in their 30s has clearly increased.
The reason why men didn't intend to marry was the economic burden, which was the most important reason, and women's resistance to marriage was the biggest reason.
The second reason for both men and women is that they have not yet found a spouse they like.
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How was your actual satisfaction with living alone like that?
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6 out of 10 were satisfied.
It's a lot of satisfaction, and the key, in particular, was a house, a house to live in comfortably.
About 3 out of 4 people with stable housing were satisfied with living alone.
As you can see in the table now, the satisfaction with housing determines the degree of satisfaction with living alone.
However, single-person households generally prefer urban areas, and even if the population begins to decline in the future, there is a prospect that the number of households will continue to increase by 2040.
This is because the number of single-person households continues to increase.
So, some analyzes say that the demand for houses that are needed in cities, especially in the metropolitan area, and houses that one-person households can prefer, may be on an increasing trend more than now.
The government's housing plans and market calculations seem to need to take this into account.
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But this year, Corona 19 also affected the satisfaction of single-person households?
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Yes.
In fact, the satisfaction rate of single-person households was slightly lower than last year.
KB conducts this survey every year. Last year, 61% of respondents said they were satisfied with 57% this year.
This is largely due to the growing anxiety about health and safety, regardless of age or sex.
In particular, even men who answered that loneliness was the most difficult thing to live alone last year, this year is the most worrying about their health, followed by loneliness.
Since I am less likely to contact other people outside of my home, even people who usually have no time to feel that I live alone will have experienced some disconnection.
Depending on the propensity, there may have been cases where it was better, but the fact that there is no partner who can directly check each other's health or condition may have come as a burden to such people.
However, although the satisfaction rate of women living alone every year is higher than that of men, women in their 50s have more than 10 percentage points this year, rather than last year, and the satisfaction of women in their 30s and 40s has become similar.
This contrasts with the sudden drop in satisfaction of men in their 50s.
There were many women complaining that the burden of childcare and housework increased sharply as the number of homework and remote classes increased this year. It is also possible results.
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I like it because I see other people's hard work. It seems that I thought, "You can see a trend of starting retirement sooner than before?
<Reporter>
Yes.
Some people are preparing to retire from their 30s, but they are increasing.
Still, there is not enough preparation for the future.
On average, single-person households expect to retire in their early 60s, and they thought that it would take 570 million won to retire.
But when you retire, the amount that you will be relieved to have this much is 62,000,000 for those in their 30s, and over 100 million won for those in their 50s.
In a way, it is possible to speculate that retirement preparations have not been continued and then, as we reach our 40s and 50s, our desired assets for retirement are tailored to reality.