13% of Korean adults don't exercise at all: survey

Nearly 13 percent of adults in South Korea did no exercise whatsoever in 2025, up by more than 50 percent compared to the previous year, a survey showed Friday. Some 12.7 percent of the respondents said they "do not work out at all" in the survey conducted by the Korea Health Promotion Institute on 2,000 men and women aged at least 19 last year. The figure surged compared to 8.1 percent in 2024 and 8 percent in 2023. The report showed that the proportion of adults who work out less than once a m

By The Korea Herald