Korea's urban population continues to rise in 2015
Social affairsAug 25, 2016
South Korea's urban population continued to increase last year with more than 90 percent of the total population living in less than 17 percent of the total land here, a government report showed Thursday.According to the report from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, the number of people living in urban areas came to just short of 47.73 million as of end-2015, up nearly250,000 from the previous year and accounting for 91.79 percent of the total population.The total size of land