SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Married couples last year were found to have spent less on wedding gifts and ceremony, and paid more attention to buying home appliances instead. According to a survey of 400 men and women in their 20s and 30s who got married last year by LOTTE Members, the operator of [...]
SEJONG, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 40 percent of newlywed couples had no children last year, reflecting the country’s chronically low birthrate and late marriage trend, data showed Thursday. According to the data compiled by Statistics Korea, 1.32 million couples got married in the five years up to November 2018, down 4.2 percent [...]
SEJONG, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly four out of every 10 newlywed couples had no children last year, government data showed Tuesday, in the latest sign of South Korea’s chronic low birthrate. Among 1.38 million newlywed couples — who have been legally married for less than five years as of Nov. 1, 2017 — [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Couples who purchase a home or live rent free early on in their marriage tend to have more children, a report showed Wednesday, indicating a correlation between housing and family planning. According to the report by Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, 54.7 percent of newlyweds live in [...]