| Overall inequality | 0.35 | Authors’ calculations on KLIPS – 2019(1) |
| Absolute inequality of opportunity | 0.12 | Authors’ calculations on KLIPS – 2019(1) |
| Relative inequality of opportunity | 34.6% | Authors’ calculations on KLIPS – 2019(1) |
| Most predictive factor | Birth area | Authors’ calculations on KLIPS – 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019(2) |
| Intergenerational persistence | 0.07 | (Song, 2022) [Table 7] |
South Korea
Note: Inequality of opportunity and overall inequality estimates are computed on age-adjusted equivalized household disposable income (Ferreira et al., 2026).
(1)Most recent survey wave.
(2)All survey waves.
References
Ferreira, F. H. G., Peragine, V., Brunori, P., Salas-Rojo, P., Moramarco, D., Sirugue, L., Barajas Prieto, L., Barbieri, T., Daza Baez, N., Datt, G., Sandi, V. de, Farella, F., Martinez Jr., A., Nguyen, J., Park, A., Simeone, E., Torres Lopez, P., & Zotti, G. (2026). International Variation in Inequality of Opportunity: Insights from 72 Countries. Research Square Working Paper.
Song, C. (2022). Comparison of intergenerational income mobility in South Korea and the United States: Period changes between 1980–1995 and 1996–2015. International Journal of Social Welfare, 31(2), 203–224.
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