SEOUL, April 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The education and income level of users of international marriage brokers has significantly increased, South Korea’s gender ministry said Thursday. The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family conducted research on 379 registered international marriage brokers and 4,195 domestic and foreign users. The study showed that the share of university [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent survey has confirmed that a growing number of South Koreans would consider tying the knot with an individual from another country. The Seoul-based Overseas Koreans Foundation conducted a survey of 1,000 Koreans aged over 19 years old, 30 percent of whom showed interest in international marriage. Roughly [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A “one-strike” system will be introduced to prevent ex-convicts of domestic violence from inviting foreigners from Vietnam and other countries to get married internationally. The measure is aimed at preventing such incidents as the “Vietnamese marriage immigrant assault case,” in which a video clip of indiscriminate assault on a [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Provincial authorities are shutting down international matchmaking services for single males in rural areas due to criticism from feminist groups. These programs have been underperforming due to the decreasing young male population in rural areas, and they have been accused of sexual discrimination and inciting populism. In South Gyeongsang [...]
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, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) – In 2016, there were 20,600 international marriages between South Koreans and foreign nationals, the latest data from Statistics Korea shows. Although the number was a 3.2 percent decline from 2015, international marriages accounted for 7.3 percent of all marriages last year, up slightly by 0.3 percent. Korean men were [...]
SEOUL, Dec.6 (Korea Bizwire) – A high-ranking official of the Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation attributed the rising number of test takers who opted for the Vietnamese language as their choice for the second foreign language subject in the College Scholastic Ability Test to the “rising number of students from multiracial families and the increasing international [...]