SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of marriages between South Koreans and foreign spouses fell to a record low last year as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted people’s cross-border movements, data showed Monday. The number of multicultural marriages came to 16,177 last year, down 34.6 percent, or 8,544, from a year earlier, according to [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The share of remarried spouses among multicultural couples who undergo divorce counselling is higher than that of Korean couples, data released by a provider of free legal consultation services showed Wednesday. The number of divorce counselling sessions offered to multicultural couples consisting of a foreign wife and Korean husband [...]
SEJONG, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of international marriages between a South Korean national and a foreigner rose 8.5 percent in 2018 from a year earlier, government data showed Wednesday. There were 23,773 international marriages last year, up 1,856 from 2017, according to the data by Statistics Korea. It marked the second straight [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of South Korean men who want to divorce their foreign spouse has quadrupled over the last six years, according to a report released by the Korea Legal Aid Center for family relations yesterday. The report, which was based on multicultural married couples who received divorce counseling last year, [...]