SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – A new survey has found that fewer South Koreans are clinging to the traditional notion that marriage is a necessity. According to statistics provided by a group of experts who advise the Presidential Committee on Ageing Society and Population Policy, the ratio of people who thought that “marriage was something that [...]
SEJONG, Jul. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 2.84 million Korean women live alone, with growing numbers engaged in economic activities, data showed on Monday. According to the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family and Statistics Korea, one-woman households accounted for 49.5 percent of the total 5.74 million single-person households this year. The statistics agency [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A new study has revealed that college-educated South Korean women with student loan debt are less likely to get married. South Korean women who have a student loan to pay back are nearly 37 percent less likely to get married, according to a thesis published in the Health and Social [...]
SEJONG, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of South Koreans getting married fell to the lowest level in 2017, government data showed Wednesday, as young people delay marriage amid a prolonged economic slowdown. The number of people tying the knot came to 264,500 in 2017, down 6.1 percent, or 17,200, from a year earlier, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Marriage is no longer considered a must in the minds of most students at postsecondary institutions, a survey has found A total of 1,000 undergraduate and graduate students at two- and four-year institutions and graduate schools nationwide participated in the survey, which was commissioned by the Campus Evangelization Network [...]
SEJONG, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of newborn babies in South Korea dropped to a six-month low in June, government data showed Wednesday. About 28,900 babies were born in the month, down 12.2 percent, or 4,000, from 32,900 tallied a year earlier, according to the data from Statistics Korea. It is the second-lowest [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Concerns over the plunging fertility rate may be deepening as a recent analysis of the most commonly used buzzwords by Nielsen Korea revealed attitudes towards marriage are not improving. The analysis was conducted from 2014 to May 31 of this year. Utilizing big data technology, Nielsen Korea trawled major social [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Actor and singer Park Yu-chun on Monday talked about his marriage for the first time since the news surfaced three months ago. “I am so sorry that I couldn’t tell you about my marriage earlier,” the member of popular boy band JYJ wrote on his Instagram. “I didn’t even [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 2.6 million, or one in 10, Korean women live alone, and an increasing number believe marriage isn’t mandatory, recent data from the country’s national statistics agency showed Tuesday. According to the report “2017 Statistics on Women” released by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family and Statistics [...]
SEJONG, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The rate of marriages of highly educated women has dropped sharply over the past 15 years amid the country’s late- and non-marriage trend, government data showed Tuesday. Out of 1,000 women who graduated from college-level or higher educational institutions, 28.6 tied the knot in 2015, compared with 41.2 cases [...]