Apartment complexes in Seoul, July 23. Yonhap
Four out of 10 individuals in Korea were registered land owners as of last year, but the total size of land they owned shrank from a year earlier, government data showed Wednesday.
According to the data from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, 20.12 million people, or 39.4 percent of the country's registered population of 51.22 million, owned land as of the end of 2025.
The tally represents an increase of 470,000, or 2.4 percent, from the previous year.
But the size of land owned by the individuals dropped to 46,127 square kilometers, down 0.3 percent year-on-year.
