SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A new law that would entitle each spouse to half of the other’s national pension funds upon divorce after a marriage period of one year or longer is being pushed forth. Under current laws, couples must be married for five years of more to be entitled to the same [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A new measure is being put forth that would allow for the immediate split of pension funds between spouses upon divorce. According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the National Pension Service, a committee created by the ministry to overlook the use of funds by the National [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The divorce rate among married international couples has dropped noticeably in recent years. The Ministry of Justice says that this is due to an educational program that all international couples must go through before getting married. According to figures released by the Ministry of Justice and Statistics Korea, the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite the family-friendly image of traditional holidays, a significant number of couples file for divorce around traditional family holidays such as Lunar New Year and Chuseok. Data from the National Court Administration shows that nearly twice as many married couples file for divorce during the 10 days before and after [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Justice issued a public notice on September 29 stating revisions to standing family laws had been passed by the National Assembly. Previously, babies born 200 days after the date of marriage or 300 days after the date of divorce were classified as children of the mother’s [...]
SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The majority of South Korean women no longer see marriage as a necessity, but rather a choice, a new report from the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA) has found. The same report also revealed that in recent years, divorce has moved from something forbidden to an ‘option [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of South Korean men who want to divorce their foreign spouse has quadrupled over the last six years, according to a report released by the Korea Legal Aid Center for family relations yesterday. The report, which was based on multicultural married couples who received divorce counseling last year, [...]
SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) – A joint report from Statistics Korea and the Ministry of Gender Equality & Family revealed that six out of ten young Koreans aged from 13 to 24 approved of living together before tying the knot, another shift away from South Korea’s conservative perspectives on marriage. According to the study, [...]
SEOUL, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) – With South Korea seeing more late-marriage divorces, the number of pensioners who split their benefits with former partners is also on the rise. As mandated by local civil law, divorcees who were married for a minimum of five years are entitled to half of the annuity (negotiable starting this [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Second marriages are no longer uncommon in South Korea, and are no longer frowned upon as much as they used to be. The latest data from Statistics Korea says that in around 20 percent of marriages, at least one of the partners is tying the knot for a second [...]