SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has seen its marriage and birth patterns shift dramatically over the past three decades, with the number of marriages nearly cut in half, births falling by two-thirds, and cross-cultural unions rising sharply, government data showed Wednesday. According to Statistics Korea, marriages peaked at 434,900 in 1996 but dropped [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of marriages between South Koreans and foreign spouses rose more than 18 percent in 2023, as those between Vietnamese grooms and naturalized South Korean brides gained sharply, data showed Wednesday. The number of multicultural marriages increased 18.3 percent on-year to reach 20,000 last year, according to the [...]
SEJONG, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of marriages in South Korea crashed to yet another record low in 2022, data showed Thursday, adding to concerns over the country’s already plunging birth rate. Around 192,000 couples tied the knot in Asia’s No. 4 economy last year, slipping 0.4 percent from 2021, according to the [...]
SEJONG, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of South Koreans getting married tumbled to a new all-time low in 2021 amid the coronavirus pandemic and young people’s changing attitude toward marriage, government data showed Thursday. The number of couples tying the knot in Asia’s fourth-largest economy came to 193,000 last year, down 9.8 percent from the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of marriages in Seoul has dropped by almost half in the past 20 years, while births of newborns also dropped by 64 percent, the city government said Thursday. Marriages in the capital stood at 44,746 in 2020, down 43.2 percent compared with 78,745 in 2000, according to [...]
SEJONG, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of South Koreans getting married fell at a double-digit rate to an all-time low in 2020 amid young people’s changing attitude toward marriage and the negative impact of the coronarvirus pandemic, government data showed Thursday The number of couples tying the knot in Asia’s fourth-largest economy reached [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 4 out of every 10 newlywed couples in South Korea had no children last year, data showed Thursday, amid the country’s chronic low birthrate and the trend of late marriages. Of 998,000 first-time and newly married couples — who had been legally married in the five years [...]
SEJONG, March 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Koreans getting married sank to an all-time low in 2019, government data showed Thursday, as young people increasingly delay marriage amid a prolonged economic slowdown. The number of couples tying the knot in Asia’s fourth-largest economy reached 239,200 in 2019, down 7.2 percent from the [...]
SEJONG, Mar. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Koreans getting married fell to the lowest level in more than 40 years in 2018, government data showed Wednesday, as young people delay marriage amid a prolonged economic slowdown. The number of couples tying the knot came to 257,622 in 2018, compared with 264,455 in [...]
The number of South Koreans getting married to a foreign spouse continued to dwindle last year, dipping to the lowest level in over a decade, data showed Thursday.(Image : sh112 / Pixabay) SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) - The number of South Koreans getting married to a foreign spouse continued to dwindle last year, dipping to [...]