SEJONG, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of marriages in South Korea crashed to yet another record low in 2022, data showed Thursday, adding to concerns over the country’s already plunging birth rate. Around 192,000 couples tied the knot in Asia’s No. 4 economy last year, slipping 0.4 percent from 2021, according to the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Marrying couples in South Korea in their 30s have become more common at wedding halls than those in their 20s, a statistics agency said Tuesday. About 193,000 couples got married in 2021 with 157,000 weddings involving wives getting married for the first time, according to Statistics Korea. Sorted by [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A husband or a wife with a healthy cardiovascular index is more likely to have a spouse with a similar healthy index, a study showed Sunday. A research team from Yonsei University College of Medicine analyzed 6,030 middle-aged couples who participated in the 2014 to 2019 National Health and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Senior couples living together have higher satisfaction in life than those living with their children or alone, a recent study showed. 52.9 percent of senior couples were “satisfied” with their lives, followed by 47.3 percent of seniors living with their children and 42.6 percent of those living alone in [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of single 20-somethings in South Korea do not want to have babies after marriage due apparently to concerns over high child-rearing costs in the country, a poll showed Monday. According to a survey reported in a monthly economic journal by the state-run Korea Development Institute, 52.4 [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage on, soon-to-be-married couples are being forced to postpone their wedding because of family members or themselves testing positive for the virus. In some cases, couples are charged exorbitant penalties for breach of contract, raising frustrations. The Korea Consumer Agency received 47 consultation [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Among South Korea’s newly-wedded couples who have been married for fewer than five years, those with children gave birth to their first baby 16 months after marriage on average. The number of newly-wedded couples with babies amounted to 520,321 in 2020. It took 16.7 months on average for them [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s soon-to-be married couples are fighting against the government’s COVID-19 restrictions on indoor weddings, saying that the ever-shifting rules are causing them financial and emotional damage. On Thursday morning, a few members of an alliance, made up of approximately 6,000 people with imminent wedding plans, staged a protest [...]
SEJONG, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of South Koreans getting married fell at a double-digit rate to an all-time low in 2020 amid young people’s changing attitude toward marriage and the negative impact of the coronarvirus pandemic, government data showed Thursday The number of couples tying the knot in Asia’s fourth-largest economy reached [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Six in 10 South Koreans over 13 years of age believe couples can live together or have children without getting married. Statistics Korea conducted a survey of 38,000 South Koreans over 13 years of age, 59.7 percent of whom believed couples can live together without getting married. The result [...]