SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of single 20-somethings in South Korea do not want to have babies after marriage due apparently to concerns over high child-rearing costs in the country, a poll showed Monday. According to a survey reported in a monthly economic journal by the state-run Korea Development Institute, 52.4 [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Celebrity actor couple Hyun Bin and Son Ye-jin got married Thursday, with the wedding ceremony strictly hidden from the public eye. Under tight security and secrecy, the wedding started at Grand Walkerhill Seoul, in eastern Seoul, at 4 p.m. with only their parents, relatives and friends attending. Actor Jang [...]
GWANGJU, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Single men and women have different reasons for having second thoughts about marriage, a survey showed Tuesday. The Gwangju Foundation for Women and Family conducted a survey of 1,614 single men and women living in the southwestern city of Gwangju between the ages of 20 and 39, in which [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Star actor Hyun Bin and his on-screen partner in the hit drama “Crash Landing On You,” Son Ye-jin, will get married next month after two years of dating, their agencies said Thursday. The two plan to hold a wedding at an undisclosed place in Seoul next month with only [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The proportion of one-person households in South Korea hit a fresh record high last year as the number of such households has continued to increase amid a delay in marriage and rapid aging, data showed Wednesday. One-person families accounted for 31.7 percent of the total last year, up from [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – More than 1 in 6 South Korean married women suffered a career break this year as they quit their jobs due to child rearing and getting married, data showed Tuesday. The number of women aged 15-54 who have stopped working after marriage reached 1.45 million in April, down 3.8 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean actors Park Shin-hye and Choi Tae-joon will tie the knot next year, the former’s management agency said Tuesday. The couple will hold a private wedding in Seoul sometime in January, according to Salt Entertainment. Park also said in a posting on her fan community she is now [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 42 percent of 30-somethings in South Korea remained unmarried last year, census data showed Monday, underscoring the trend in which many young people delay or give up on marriage amid a prolonged economic slowdown. Out of 13.7 million singles aged 15 and older, 2.82 million people in [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent survey showed that almost two thirds of unmarried couples who live together without being married are satisfied with the relationship with their partner. The state-funded Korea Women’s Development Institute conducted a survey of 3,007 persons between 19 and 69 years of age living as an unmarried couple, [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A mutation occurring in a BRCA1/2 gene is seen as a primary factor that raises the risk of breast and ovarian cancer among women, and prostate cancer among men. What would you do if your fiance had a DNA mutation that could cause breast cancer? According to a survey [...]