[Economy 365]



Last year, it was counted that 3.14 million Korean adults, the so-called 'Kangaroo tribe', were living with financial help from their parents.



Among them, 650,000 people in their 30s and 40s, who are at their peak working age, accounted for about 1 in 5.



The proportion of the unmarried population over the age of 30 is 14.7%, a 1.5 percentage point increase from 2015, and in particular, those in their 30s accounted for 42.5%, the highest ever since statistics were compiled.



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Among the service industries, travel companies, airlines, and movie theaters have been hit hard by the COVID-19 outbreak, while online shopping and non-store retail businesses are continuing to boom.



As a result of a survey by the National Statistical Office, the service industry production index of travel agencies was 18.4, which was 84.4% lower than in July 2019, before the corona, and the drop rate was the highest, followed by air passenger transportation, stadium operation, and movie theater operation.



The sector with the largest increase in the production index was securities and futures brokerage, which rose 108% to 250.6, followed by Internet shopping and real estate brokerage.



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number of customers who have lowered interest rates by requesting interest rate cuts from 19 domestic banks over the past five years has been estimated at 760,000, and the amount of interest savings amounted to KRW 1.7 trillion.



The number of requests for interest rate cut by customers increased by nearly 500% over the past five years, but the number of requests for interest rate cut by banks increased only 95% during the same period.



The right to demand a rate cut has been established as a legal right for customers with improved credit since 2019.



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a result of a research on the dividend amount of 140 companies that announced dividends in the first half of the 2,300 listed companies by a company analysis research institute, Samsung Electronics paid close to KRW 5 trillion, accounting for 53% of the total.



The individual who received the largest dividend was Hong Ra-hee, former director of the Leeum Museum of Art, with a total of 99.2 billion won.