SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — In a bold move to support young couples and maintain recent upticks in birth rates, the Seoul Metropolitan Government announced plans to provide newly married couples with 1 million won in marriage grants starting this October. The initiative, currently under review by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, will target [...]
SEJONG, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent statistical analysis has revealed that three out of every 10 newlywed couples who have married for the first time are double-income, no kids households (‘DINK’), outnumbering other types of couples. According to the ’2022 Newlywed Couples Statistics’ released by Statistics Korea on December 18, out of the 815,357 [...]
SEJONG, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – In a recent report from Statistics Korea, it was revealed that less than half of newlywed couples own homes, with a significant percentage of them carrying mortgage debt. Furthermore, dual-income couples have seen a slight increase in their annual incomes, with the average surpassing 84 million won. According to data [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of newly married couples fell more than 6 percent to come to around 1 million in 2022, and the proportion of the couples having no children reached an all-time high, data showed Monday. The number of newly married couples came to 1.03 million last year, down from [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Marrying couples in South Korea in their 30s have become more common at wedding halls than those in their 20s, a statistics agency said Tuesday. About 193,000 couples got married in 2021 with 157,000 weddings involving wives getting married for the first time, according to Statistics Korea. Sorted by [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly half of the recently married couples in South Korea had no children in 2021, data showed Monday, amid the country’s chronic low birthrate and changing social norms. Some 45.8 percent of the country’s 871,428 couples who were legally married in the five years up to November 2021 did [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Among South Korea’s newly-wedded couples who have been married for fewer than five years, those with children gave birth to their first baby 16 months after marriage on average. The number of newly-wedded couples with babies amounted to 520,321 in 2020. It took 16.7 months on average for them [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly half of recently newlywed couples in South Korea had no children, data showed Thursday, amid the country’s chronic low birthrate and changing social norms. Some 44.5 percent of the country’s 1.18 million couples, who were legally married in the five years up to November 2020, did not have [...]
SEOUL, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Newlywed couples who have owned a home since getting married had a greater chance of having children than newly married couples without homes, data showed Sunday, indicating that owning houses may affect childbirths. Of 212,000 first-time and newly married couples who tied the knot in 2014 and maintained their [...]
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 [...]