Economic status according to the distribution of housing size in Kaesong around 1900.

From: Korean Studies | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: Oh, Sung | Copyright information

Homes ranging from one-room dwellings to forty-five-room mansions were constructed in the Kaesong area around 1900. Analysis indicates that 23 percent were small, 57 percent were medium, and 20 percent were large. Medium-sized dwellings constituted 80 percent of the total number of habitations, indicating that the middle class constituted approximately four-fifths of the area population. The large middle class is unusual compared to other urban areas of the period and is related to ...

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