Korea’s housing ladder gets steeper

The gap in housing wealth between Korea’s richest and poorest 20 percent of households reached 290-fold in 2025, the widest since records began in 2017, highlighting deepening housing inequality. The ratio rose from 244.9 a year earlier, based on the average value of homes each group both owned and lived in. Kim Hyu…

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