SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The percentage of young adults who hold a favorable view of marriage has significantly decreased compared to a decade ago, a survey showed Monday. According to a survey conducted by Statistics Korea, only 36.4 percent of young adults expressed a positive attitude towards marriage in May 2022, marking a [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — About one-third of households in South Korea with members in their 30s and 40s, along with children, purchased their initial home before marriage, a government think tank said Tuesday. The Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements conducted a survey involving 3,042 households whose members fall within the age range [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of matchmaking agencies reportedly spiked during the pandemic due to challenges in organizing offline dates, leading to a trend of assessing potential partners’ backgrounds and requirements before arranging meetings. There were 1,841 matchmaking agencies in the country as of February, representing a 17.1 percent increase from the [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Half of South Koreans viewed marriage as unessential and nearly 60 percent of those in their 10s and 20s said childbirth after marriage is not a must, a government report showed Thursday, illustrating the country’s demographic crisis amid a record-low birthrate. Only 50 percent of South Koreans aged 13 [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — With Koreans getting married at older ages due to shifts in values and demographic circumstances, brides in their early 40s now outnumber those in their early 20s, data showed Monday. According to Statistics Korea’s Korean Statistical Information Service (KOSIS), 10,949 women between the ages of 40 and 44 got [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Only 4 percent of single South Korean women in their 20s and early 30s view marriage and childbirth as essential, a survey showed Sunday, a development that illustrated the chronic decline in childbirths in Asia’s fourth-largest economy. Meanwhile, 12.9 percent of single men in the same age bracket agreed [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of migrant women who have come to South Korea for marriage are concerned with family problems, a survey showed Tuesday. The Seoul Counseling Center for Migrant Women reported that among 12,341 counseling cases last year, 35.8 percent dealt with family issues, followed by administrative complaints (18.3 percent) [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean actor Song Joong-ki said Monday he has just been married to British actress Katy Louise Saunders and she is pregnant with his baby. The 37-year-old actor made the surprise announcement in a letter to a fan club, saying the couple has just completed the marriage registration. “I [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Assortative mating inequality in South Korea is lower than in other countries while the proportion of single-person or single-parent households in the country is also lower than in other nations, a central bank report said Thursday. In a recent study, the Bank of Korea reported that the Gini coefficient of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Home-owning young South Koreans have more positive views toward marriage than those who do not own a home, the statistics agency said Wednesday. Statistics Korea analyzed the statistical data of the unmarried South Korean population between the ages of 19 and 34 as stipulated in the Social Survey 2020, [...]