Living alone is hard. Seoul offers help for $4 an hour

Seoul will broaden a city-run assistance program for single-person households to cover health care, moving and emotional support, as the number of people living alone continues to climb. The city government said Sunday it will expand its “companion service,” which dispatches trained aides to help residents with tasks that are difficult to manage alone. The move comes as one-person households accounted for about 40 percent of all households in Seoul, or 1.66 million, as of 2024. The program’s exi

By The Korea Herald