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Korea ranks near bottom of OECD for income redistribution - The Korea Times

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    10% Center

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Korea ranked near the bottom of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) member countries in income redistribution through taxes and welfare systems, latest data showed Sunday.
48% : Its disposable-income Gini coefficient was 0.323, however, leaving the country ranked 22nd after taxes, pensions and benefits were taken into account.
47% : "The results show that Korea's income redistribution through taxes and other measures is relatively weak compared with other OECD countries," said Kim Kwang-seok, a researcher at the Institute for Korean Economy & Industry.
40% : The measure compares the Gini coefficient for market income before taxes with that for disposable income after taxes and transfers.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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