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Women with Student Loans Less Likely to get Married

SEOUL, Apr. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A new study has revealed that college-educated South Korean women with student loan debt are less likely to get married. South Korean women who have a student loan to pay back are nearly 37 percent less likely to get married, according to a thesis published in the Health and Social [...]

Student Loans Nearly Triple in Four Years

SEJONG, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Student loans from the government rose nearly three-fold from 2010 to 2014 due to tuition increases, a private research institute said Friday. Outstanding government-funded student loans came to 10.7 trillion won (US$9.8 billion) as of the end of last year, 2.9 times higher than 3.7 trillion won in 2010, [...]