SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Single women significantly outnumber single men in South Korea’s reverse mortgage program, accounting for nearly five times as many participants, according to recent government housing finance statistics. As of November 2024, single women made up 38% of new reverse mortgage subscribers, compared to just 8.1% for single men. Of the 13,163 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Only 2.9 percent of South Korean single women regard marriage as necessary, a figure far lower than their Chinese counterparts, a survey showed Wednesday. In contrast, 19.4 percent of Chinese women consider marriage necessary, according to the survey of 411 and 413 single women aged 25-34 and living in [...]
SEJONG, Jul. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 2.84 million Korean women live alone, with growing numbers engaged in economic activities, data showed on Monday. According to the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family and Statistics Korea, one-woman households accounted for 49.5 percent of the total 5.74 million single-person households this year. The statistics agency [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 2.6 million, or one in 10, Korean women live alone, and an increasing number believe marriage isn’t mandatory, recent data from the country’s national statistics agency showed Tuesday. According to the report “2017 Statistics on Women” released by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family and Statistics [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Over 1 in 10 South Korean women aged 50 is expected to remain single in 2025 in keeping with an uptrend in the number of women opting not to tie the knot, a report said Wednesday. The Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs said in the report that [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent survey says many single women in Korea seek alcohol as their stress reliever. According to the study conducted by Seoul National University’s College of Nursing, out of 1,700 unmarried women aged 19 or older, 38 percent stated that they experience a high level of stress in their daily [...]
SEOUL, March 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Song Soo-hyun, 39, recently spent 3.5 million won (US$2,900) to have her eggs frozen at a local fertility center so she could still give birth some day in the future when she finds Mr. Right. “Next year, I hit my forties. I chose to freeze my eggs because I [...]