The shelf · South Korea
Does Aging Solo hold up?
Aging Solo, by Kim Hee-kyung (2023)
Interviews with nineteen unmarried women in their forties and fifties who live alone, on loneliness, closeness and old age.
The short answer
Its headline comparison holds, and the gap has widened since.
The claims, checked
One-person households now outnumber households of a couple and their children.
Holds One-person households were 33.4% of general households in 2021, above couples with children; by 2024 the share was 36.1%.
Evidence: Newsis, on Statistics Korea figures