BUSAN, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – May is no longer the most favorable month for weddings Korea, recent data shows. Instead, fall has become the most popular season for those tying the knot. Based on Lotte Department Store’s “Wedding Members” data, October saw the highest percentage of weddings at 19 percent in 2015, followed by [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Chuseok, also referred to as Korean Thanksgiving, is one of the two major traditional holidays in Korea with the other being Lunar New Year. It is also the time for families to visit their hometowns, meet their parents and relatives, and catch up. However, it has become a stressful [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly half of married women think of marriage as an option rather than a life’s must, and just as many of them say it is okay to be married and not have children, a survey released on Tuesday said. A poll of 11,009 married women aged 15-49 found that [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Majority of yet-to-marry men and women are against virtually all traditionally accepted notions about marriage, from financial arrangements to having children and divorcing, according to a survey released on Tuesday. Seventy-nine percent of the men and 72.3 percent of the women disagreed with the conventional idea that men finance [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Wedding ceremonies are considered to be some of the biggest family events for Koreans. In fact, weddings are so important that a recent study conducted by wedding consulting firm Duo Wed showed that an average of 82,460,000 won ($72,000) is spent for a wedding ceremony in Korea. But there [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The results of a recent survey conducted by Life and Health Magazine, HeyDay (owned by Lina Life Insurance), and the Kang Dong-woo Korean Institute for Sexual & Couples’ Health revealed that 36.1 percent of married respondents (743 men and women) said that they engage in sexual intercourse once or [...]
SEJONG, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of childbirths in South Korea fell at the fastest clip in more than two years in April on a low birthrate and late marriage trend, government data showed Thursday. About 35,300 babies were born in April, down 7.3 percent, or 2,800, from 38,100 a year earlier, extending [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The average ages of both South Korean men and women at the time of their first marriages have reached record highs, a market report said Tuesday, suggesting economic issues as a possible reason. According to the report from local matchmaking firm Duo, the average age of men who met [...]
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, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean parents have spent more than half of their retirement savings in the past five years to foot the bill for the cost of their children’s weddings, a private think tank said Thursday. Samsung Life Retirement Research Center recently conducted a survey on 868 parents to find how [...]