Anchor: A new report finds that one out of three South Koreans don’t get to have dinner with their families. The latest government survey has also found that South Korean adults drink coffee more often than they consume rice. 
Our Bae Joo-yon has more on the health survey statistics.
 
Report: One in three South Koreans was found to not have dinner with their family.
 
That’s according to the 2014 national health data report released on Monday by the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
 
After surveying five-thousand people nationwide, the report found that only 65 percent of South Koreans get to have dinner with their families. That’s lower than the 76 percent posted in 2005.
 
The proportion of people who eat out at least once a day grew from nearly 24 percent posted in 2008, to a little over 30 percent in 2014.
 
The frequency of men dining out was two times larger than that of women. When breaking down the data by age group, people in their 30s and 40s ate out the most.
 
The ratio of people who skipped breakfast stood at 22-and-a-half percent. That’s far higher than the nine percent posted for lunch and six percent for dinner.
 
The latest report also found that South Koreans spend the day sitting down seven-and-a-half hours on average.
 
South Korean adults, excluding the elderly, were found to have drank one-point-seven cups of coffee a day on average, or much more often than consuming steamed rice.

The average time that Koreans slept stood at seven-point-one hours for people under 29. Sleeping time fell to six-point-eight hours for people in their 30s and 40s. Those in their 50s and 60s had about six-point-seven or six-point-six hours of sleep.

The survey also revealed that about a third of South Korean adults were overweight in 2014, while 31-point-five percent over 19 were deemed obese. 

More than 63 percent of those overweight took steps to lose weight, but about 36 percent did not put in the effort to go on a diet or exercise.
Bae Joo-yon, KBS World Radio News.