A street in Hongdae, one of the busiest entertainment districts in Seoul, is crowded with people on April 8, 2022. (Yonhap)
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean male and female adults usually have sex for the first time between the ages of 20 and 24, a survey showed Tuesday.
The Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs conducted a nationwide survey of 3,193 adults between the ages of 19 and 59, with 65.9 percent of men and 57.4 percent of women saying they had their first sexual experience between the ages of 20 and 24.
They were followed by the 25 to 29 age group (19.8 percent men, 26.4 percent women), and the 30 to 34 age group (4.1 percent men, 7.5 percent women).
The data also showed that 8.9 percent of men and 6 percent of women had sex for the first time before the age of 19.
Among 238 respondents who had their first sexual experience before the age of 19 (140 men, 98 women), 57.1 percent of men and 54.1 percent of women said they had sex during their senior year at high school.
Respondents who said that they had met a sexual partner in the previous year said the individual was typically around the same age as them.
At 75.6 percent of men and 89.5 percent of women, most of the respondents had no more than one sex partner in the year prior.
The data did show, however, that 35 men (2.2 percent) and seven women (0.4 percent) had more than seven different sex partners in the prior 12 months.
Lina Jang (linajang@koreabizwire.com)
