Property Under Threat in South Korea: The Spectre of Land Reform Looming
South Korea's "Participatory Government" recently released these statistics, aimed at causing alarm:

[T]he top 1 percent of the population own 51.5 percent of privately-owned land, and only 28.7 percent of the people own any land at all, while 71.3 percent or 35 million are landless.

Knowing well that statistics can be manipulated to prove anything, South Korea's top consevative daily did some analysis in an article entitled The Truth About the Land-Owning Classes, which included this:

The dumbfounding fact is that the 70 percent despondent landless include newborn infants. The government, it turns out, prepared the land ownership statistics by individual, not by household, which would have been the sensible way since home and land ownership is mostly recorded in the name of a householder. To ignore that principle is tantamount to the farcical act of telling young children living at home that they are serfs.

The average size of our households is 3.1 persons. That 28.7 percent of the population own land, therefore, means that about 70 percent of the population belong to the land-owning classes. That is the exact opposite of what the government wants us to believe.

Here's another article on this theme: [EDITORIAL]Public land ownership.