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 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – A Seoul court dismissed a suit filed by retired footballer Cha Du-ri seeking a divorce from his wife, court officials said Thursday. The Seoul Family Court rejected the 36-year-old’s claim, saying that he did not receive any unfair treatment from his 37-year-old wife, only identified by her surname Shin. [...]
SEOUL, Jan.20 (Korea Bizarre) – A recent survey has revealed that one out of two singles in their 20s and 30s are thinking about signing a prenup before getting married. Furthermore, more than half of the male respondents to the survey answered that they would get married again after divorce, while women preferred not to [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Statistics show that the number of couples that get divorced without children make up more than half of the total number of divorces. ‘December divorces’, divorces after more than 20 years of marriage, are becoming a trend. On the other hand, only 307,000 couples got married last year, which [...]
SEJONG, Apr. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Koreans tying the knot fell for the third straight year in 2014, mainly due to fewer people in the marriageable age, government data showed Thursday. According to the data by Statistics Korea, the number of marriages stood at 305,507 last year, down 5.4 percent from [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — More Koreans are starting to consider marriage as a dispensable life event. According to a survey conducted by Statistics Korea in 2014, 38.9 percent of Korean respondents over 13 said that they regarded marriage as dispensable while 2.0 percent of the respondents said that they considered marriage as completely unnecessary. [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – “Divorce in Twilight,” a popularized term referring to the divorce among the mid-aged and the elderly of more than 20-year of marriage, is all-time high in South Korea, as once a more family-oriented society is undergoing drastic demographic changes in structure while members of families are increasingly individualistic and [...]
SEJONG, South Korea, Sep. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – A housewife in her late 30s was arrested on a charge of inflicting injury upon her mother-in-law in Sejong city, South Chungcheong Province on September 7. According to Sejong Police Station in the city, a woman was brought in for a violence charge against her husband’s mother [...]