Middle-aged men struggling to share hardships drive surge in solitary deaths
The number of people dying alone in South Korea rose to nearly 4,000 last year, extending a steady upward trend driven largely by middle-aged men, government data showed Thursday.
According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, 3,924 solitary deaths, defined as deaths in social isolation discovered only after some amount of time had passed, were recorded in 2024, up 7.2 percent from a year earlier.
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