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NEXT LIVING - SEOUL

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HOME > ENTERTAINMENT > Korean TV Captures Rising Phenomenon of Single-Person Households in 'I Live Alone' Mustang's Traditional Cliffside Dwellings (Photo : Getty Images) Crumbling marriages causing people to lose faith in the institution as well as gender imbalances contribute to the rising global phenomenon of single-person households.

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The relative poverty rate for people living alone is 47.6%, higher than multi-person households Kim Gyeong-sik (49, not his real name) lives by himself in a motel in the Seongdong District of Seoul. Kim used to have a family: he was married and was raising two kids.

Single person households rise to most...

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Goshiwon is a form of housing that has been in South Korea for more than 40 years. It started as cheap, temporary accommodations for students who spend years studying for difficult state and bar exams, known as in Korean. The flats usually consist of cramped rooms less than five square meters, with a communal kitchen and bathroom.

Goshitel: Refuge for Those Who Can't...

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Jun Michael Park is a documentary photographer from Seoul, Korea. Fragments of Seoul is his long-term project on the changing social landscape of Seoul.

Fragments of Seoul | Jun Michael Park

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Demonstrations are a routine occurrence in downtown Seoul, but I don't mind it in the least. Angry chanting is a familiar soundtrack to life in South Korea; when slogans reverberate at the capital's most symbolic locations, you know the country is well. Democracy lives.

Pleasures of Seoul | KOREA EXPOSÉ

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Domestic apartment buildings in Korea are usually supplied by the construction companies and the government, restricting the opportunities for architects to take part. Except for one exclusion, which is the Asia Seonsuchon Apartments built to accommodate athletes from all over the world who were expected to participate in the Asian Games in 1986 and the Olympic Games in 1988 held in Seoul.

Sungyong Joh - POST SEOUL

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MOST South Korean urbanites would leap at the chance to part with $150,000 to rent a smallish flat for three years in Seoul, the capital. These days, however, most Korean landlords would spurn such a measly deposit. Korea's unusual rental system, known as jeonse, does not involve monthly rental payments.

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The difficulties that students face in housing can threaten their lives. Many students live with hazards, crime, and financial strain as they try to study while working to pay rent. The dangers are right next door. In November 2014, a 22 year-old student at Korea University died after inhaling smoke from a fire at the goshiwon where she was staying.

Smothered at Home Can Students Survive...

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Imagine a world where a £100,000 deposit for a small flat is cheap; where having 60% of the value of your next home means you haven't saved enough and you're running short of time because your tenancy (yes, that the huge deposit was only key money) will be over in two years.

How do you solve a problem like Korea's...

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The South Korean government takes poverty seriously. The country has made tireless efforts to bury the image of a war-torn nation it once was. Stories it promotes are the rags-to-riches tale of success, of the "Miracle of the Han River" variety, the Korean Wave, the democratization.

Jjokbangchon: Where South Korea's...

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South Korea will launch a project later this year to provide 300,000 rental homes to jobseekers that can help ease the financial burden of young people, the land and infrastructure ministry said Monday. The rental homes will be supplied gradually during the President Moon Jae-in's five-year term that began May 10.

Gov't to start supplying 300,000 rental...

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