Report Says Out-of-Wedlock Birth Rate Lowest in S. Korea among OECD States

SEJONG, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has the lowest rate of out-of-wedlock births among advanced countries, primarily because of ingrained conservative social values, a report said Monday. The report published in the latest quarterly by the Statistical Research Institute put the country’s unmarried childbearing rate at 1.9 percent in 2014, the lowest among [...]