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 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – In a sign of a shift away from a once highly conservative society, more Koreans are growing comfortable with the idea of divorce, and living together before tying the knot. Researchers from the Korea Institute of Health and Social Affairs, Seoul National University (Institute for Social Development and Policy [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Lim Woo-jae, the former vice president of Samsung Electronics who reportedly filed for divorce from Lee Boo-jin at the Seoul Family Court on June 29, is suing for a 1.2 trillion won ($1.04 billion) settlement from his ex-wife, who is the former CEO of Hotel Shilla and daughter of Samsung [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) – In the 1980s and 1990s, the major reason cited for divorce was ‘husband’s domestic violence’. But from 2010 onward, it has changed to rather abstract discords between couples, like ‘difference in personality’. According to the Korea Legal Aid Center for Family Relations, which analyzed over 1.46 million consultations from [...]