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 – [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – “Divorce in Twilight,” a popularized term referring to the divorce among the mid-aged and the elderly of more than 20-year of marriage, is all-time high in South Korea, as once a more family-oriented society is undergoing drastic demographic changes in structure while members of families are increasingly individualistic and [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – A survey on unmarried men revealed that the biggest fear about their marriage partner is whether she used to work for the sex industry. Meanwhile, the most cited worry for single women about their potential bridegroom is if he is still missing the former lover. According to matchmaking service [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Seven out of ten college students will seek their parents’ support for their wedding preparation and 40 percent of them will get their support even after their marriage, a survey said. According to Noble Alba, a part-time job information site, which conducted the survey asking 647 university students, [...]