SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul family court on Thursday sided with the ex-husband of Gerhard Schroeder’s South Korean wife and ordered the former German chancellor to partially compensate the man for destroying his marriage. The man, whose identity was withheld, filed a lawsuit in 2018 seeking 100 million won (US$81,708) in compensation, [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — With more Koreans postponing marriage and even having a child as the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage on, experts are raising the prospects of a ‘population shock’. A study by professor Choi Seul-ki from the KDI School of Public Policy and Management and professor Kye Bong-oh from Kookmin University [...]
SEOUL, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Six out of 10 South Korean young people think it is unnecessary to get married and have kids, a government survey showed Saturday. The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family conducted the triennial poll on 7,100 people aged between 9 and 24 and 4,800 parental caregivers from November through [...]
SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that 2 in 3 teenagers don’t believe in the need to get married. Last year, the state-funded National Youth Policy Institute conducted a survey of 5,740 middle and high school students from across the country, 59.9 percent of whom believed that they don’t need [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of South Koreans in their 10s and 20s think it is not necessary to have kids after marriage, a report showed Thursday, adding to concerns about the country’s chronic low birth rate. As of 2020, 32 percent of Koreans aged 13 or older said it is [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean men married to foreign women tend to be more cooperative than others when it comes to rearing a child or doing chores at home. Kim Seok-yeong, holding a master’s degree from Ewha Women’s University, studied 2,998 multicultural couples from the 2015 Family Survey and 11,744 multicultural couples [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – A substantial number of South Korean elementary, middle and high school students no longer think that marriage is an obligation. ChildFund Korea, a Seoul-based charity organization for children with mental and physical disabilities, conducted a survey of 708 elementary, middle and high school students. Only 16.7 percent of the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of the second generation of South Korea’s chaebol (conglomerate) families turned out to have married partners from within the chaebol community. According to a survey conducted by corporate tracker CEO Score that looked at the marriages of family members in the nation’s top 55 conglomerates headed [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Roughly 20 percent of newlyweds in South Korea going into the fifth year of their marriage do not have children, breaking previous records. Statistics Korea said Tuesday that 18.3 percent of couples five years into their marriage did not have children as of last year, setting a record in [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Six in 10 South Koreans over 13 years of age believe couples can live together or have children without getting married. Statistics Korea conducted a survey of 38,000 South Koreans over 13 years of age, 59.7 percent of whom believed couples can live together without getting married. The result [...]