SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of marriages between South Korean nationals and foreign spouses set a new record low last year amid the COVID-19 pandemic, data showed Thursday. A total of 13,926 transnational couples tied the knot here in 2021, down 13.9 percent, or 2,251, from a year earlier, according to the [...]
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 [...]
JEJU, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Among South Korean cities and regions, Jeju Island ranked first in terms of the share of multicultural marriages last year. 13.2 percent of marriages on the southern resort island last year were multicultural marriages, the highest rate among the nation’s major cities and regions, according to the data released by Statistics [...]
JEJU, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The proportion of multicultural marriages on Jeju Island is the highest in the country, a recent report showed. According to data from the Jeju Branch of the Honam Regional Statistical Office, Jeju accounted for 6.6 percent (881 couples) of first-time newly married couples as of 2018. This figure is [...]
SEJONG, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of foreign residents in South Korea has more than doubled over the past decade, topping the 2 million mark in 2016, but multicultural marriages have dropped sharply, government data showed Tuesday. The number of non-Korean citizens totaled some 2.05 million as of end-December 2016, according to the [...]