SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The marriage season is back, and with it is the Korean penchant for lavish wedding gifts. In a fortuitous coincidence, it just so happens that high-end brands like Chanel and Bottega Veneta are adjusting their product prices upward. According to representatives from the retail and fashion industries, Chanel will [...]
SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The chances of getting married can increase by up to five times for men and two times for women when employed, revealed the Korea Economic Research Institute (KERI) in a recent report. According to the report, after conducting a study into the effects of employment on marriage for those between [...]
SEOUL, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Engaged couples are shopping online to purchase furnishings for their new homes, avoiding endless shopping and almost inevitable arguments while they purchase the items the need to start a life together. Not so long ago, couples preparing for marriage had to walk around from store to store to purchase [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) - Over half of South Korean teenagers see marriage as not mandatory, data showed Wednesday, implying the country’s low birthrate could worsen in the near future. Around 52.6 percent of South Korean teens said being single won’t have a major impact on their lives, with more females agreeing to the belief [...]
SEOUL, Feb.2 (Korea Bizwire) – New data shows that newlyweds spend an average of 270 million won when they get married, which represents a 40 million won increase compared to the average last year. Wedding consultant company Duo Wed announced the results of a survey conducted on 1,000 men and women who got married within [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The third plan to deal with a chronically low birthrate and aging society issued by the government sees delayed marriage as one of the main causes of low rates of childbirth, and concentrates on providing solutions to establish ‘good conditions to get married’. As a first step, the government [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of Korean adolescents are willing to live with their future partner without getting married to them, while 6 of 10 adolescents are distraught over various issues in their lives, especially about their studies, according to a survey conducted by Statistics Korea and the Ministry of Gender Equality [...]
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, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Although ‘Interstellar’ has been seen by 10 million people in South Korea, a small independent documentary about a couple in the last moments of their 76 year marriage, is set to dethrone Christopher Nolan’s 165 million dollar space drama. The small budget documentary with a rather lengthy title – [...]