SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The proportion of one-person households in South Korea hit a fresh record high last year as the number of such households has continued to increase amid a delay in marriage and rapid aging, data showed Wednesday. One-person families accounted for 31.7 percent of the total last year, up from [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – More than 1 in 6 South Korean married women suffered a career break this year as they quit their jobs due to child rearing and getting married, data showed Tuesday. The number of women aged 15-54 who have stopped working after marriage reached 1.45 million in April, down 3.8 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean actors Park Shin-hye and Choi Tae-joon will tie the knot next year, the former’s management agency said Tuesday. The couple will hold a private wedding in Seoul sometime in January, according to Salt Entertainment. Park also said in a posting on her fan community she is now [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 42 percent of 30-somethings in South Korea remained unmarried last year, census data showed Monday, underscoring the trend in which many young people delay or give up on marriage amid a prolonged economic slowdown. Out of 13.7 million singles aged 15 and older, 2.82 million people in [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent survey showed that almost two thirds of unmarried couples who live together without being married are satisfied with the relationship with their partner. The state-funded Korea Women’s Development Institute conducted a survey of 3,007 persons between 19 and 69 years of age living as an unmarried couple, [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A mutation occurring in a BRCA1/2 gene is seen as a primary factor that raises the risk of breast and ovarian cancer among women, and prostate cancer among men. What would you do if your fiance had a DNA mutation that could cause breast cancer? According to a survey [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul family court on Thursday sided with the ex-husband of Gerhard Schroeder’s South Korean wife and ordered the former German chancellor to partially compensate the man for destroying his marriage. The man, whose identity was withheld, filed a lawsuit in 2018 seeking 100 million won (US$81,708) in compensation, [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — With more Koreans postponing marriage and even having a child as the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage on, experts are raising the prospects of a ‘population shock’. A study by professor Choi Seul-ki from the KDI School of Public Policy and Management and professor Kye Bong-oh from Kookmin University [...]
SEOUL, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Six out of 10 South Korean young people think it is unnecessary to get married and have kids, a government survey showed Saturday. The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family conducted the triennial poll on 7,100 people aged between 9 and 24 and 4,800 parental caregivers from November through [...]
SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that 2 in 3 teenagers don’t believe in the need to get married. Last year, the state-funded National Youth Policy Institute conducted a survey of 5,740 middle and high school students from across the country, 59.9 percent of whom believed that they don’t need [...]