SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) — A married, employed person over the age of 30, charged with the responsibility of looking after their family or children, is more satisfied with both their life and work-life balance than unmarried individuals. According to a report from the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, 17,510 employed South [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Middle-aged individuals living alone are less satisfied with their lives than those who live with family members. Professor Hong Seong-pyo from the Catholic University of Korea and professor Lim Han-ryeo from Seoul National University conducted a survey of 1,378 middle-aged, single-person households over 40 years of age and 6,382 [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Single-person households tend to spend more on alcohol compared to larger households, a report said Sunday. A research team from the state-run Korea Rural Economic Institute analyzed data from Statistics Korea to identify the average amount of spending on processed foods and the share of each item among the [...]
SEOUL, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The Cabinet on Tuesday approved bills to allow single people to adopt children, as the number of one-person households is sharply increasing. The justice ministry revised the Civil Act and the Family Litigation Act, which currently stipulate only married couples can legally adopt. Under the revisions, single people can [...]
GWANGJU, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Single men and women have different reasons for having second thoughts about marriage, a survey showed Tuesday. The Gwangju Foundation for Women and Family conducted a survey of 1,614 single men and women living in the southwestern city of Gwangju between the ages of 20 and 39, in which [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The occupation considered to be most ideal for spouses among single men and women in their 20s and 30s turned out to be a civil servant. According to a survey conducted by local matchmaking agency Gayeon of 500 single men and 500 single women between the ages of 25 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The justice ministry announced Tuesday it has come up with a law revision to allow capable singles to become eligible for full adoptions. The ministry said it plans to submit the bill to revise the current civil law to allow singles 25 and older capable of supporting the well-being [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Justice said Monday it plans to revise a law to allow a single person to legally adopt a child, as single-member households are becoming the country’s most common living arrangement. The ministry’s task force, aimed at making policies friendlier toward single-person households, has recently agreed to [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of unmarried South Koreans in their 30s are living with their parents, a report showed Tuesday, as young people are delaying marriages amid an economic slowdown. A total of 54.8 percent of single Koreans in their 30s are living with their parents without moving out on [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of South Korean singles don’t feel the need to get married, a recent study revealed. Embrain Trend Monitor, a market research firm, conducted a survey of 1,200 South Korean single men and women between the ages of 19 and 45, of which only 18.1 percent thought [...]