One in 20 Koreans has limited social interaction with others, a government analysis shows, offering a rare data-based look at how weaker personal networks are reflected in work, mobility and spending patterns. The Ministry of Data and Statistics released a report Monday on living conditions among four groups of social and policy interest: older adults ages 65 and older, young adults ages 19 to 34, the low-interaction group and people 18 and older with no loan or credit card history over the past three years. The low-interaction group was defined as mobile phone users who contacted fewer than 20 distinct people and made fewer than 500 outgoing calls and text messages a month. This placed them in the bottom 15 percent for the former and the bottom 10 percent for the latter as of the first quarter of this year. The ministry combined the government’s 2023 population data with first-quarter data this year on daily activity from SK Telecom, Shinhan Card, Korea Credit Bureau and SK Broadband to analyze economic and social activity. It said the report is the first such analysis to closely exam