Co-Owners of a Life: A Platonic Household in Seoul

A Korean best-selling memoir by Kim Hana and Hwang Sunwoo chronicles buying a shared Seoul apartment and living as platonic partners, detailing shared finances, chores, and four cats, and arguing that housing policy and social norms must adapt to rising single-person households by normalizing non-marital, non-romantic family forms—including civil unions—while presenting their partnership as a pragmatic, empowering alternative to traditional marriage.