Park Hyun-ah, 30-year-old, said "Growing up, I was never questioned with the fact I would get married, " But then again, a lot of things I never questioned turned out differently. These days, I've become more and more fearful of marriage". According to the statistics released by the Seoul Metropolitan Government, 41% of Zeolites said "a question of choice rather than obligation." This rate has increased, compared to the 28.95 in 2006. Also, who felt that marriage was a "must", decreased from 28.5% in 2006 to 13.5% in 2014.

Lee Minji, a blogger, hopes to devote her life to self-development and her career. Also, she said that marriage means having to take on another set of unwanted responsibilities. Seriously, the single population in Korea is the highest in the OECD countries at four out of ten. The majority of males, who requested anonymity, said they could not marry because they did not have the ability to cover the expenses of wedding housing, and children's education. Most of the young Koreans realize marriage is not easy. With this perception of marriage, how could we change our culture? It would be reasonable to assume that such a shift in 20-30 years old Koreans' lifestyle would lead to a transformation in the conventional format of marriage. "But, with the decreasing number of young Koreans who do enter into matrimony, most follow in the paths of tradition", said Koo Jung-woo, a professor of sociology at Sungkyunkwna University.

According to the statistics, 41 percent of men and 28.6% of women said that the stabilization of youth employment is the most necessary state policy to encourage marriage. The second necessary state policy is the support for a newly married couple.A dual approach of simultaneously encouraging marriage and offering a social system for integrating the growing number of singles is needed", Koo said. "Diversifying the forms of marriage is a stary.""We could allow more benefits for de facto marriages as one type of compromise."

May 13, 2018 By Lee In Song