The Grand Narrative

I have a wedding to go to in a couple of hours, so just a very short article today sorry. But it may still be interesting and it’s a good resource to have up on the blog that I can refer back to, especially for a post I plan to do in the next couple of weeks on Korean cohabitation rates. As a quick teaser for that, I include this post in the “Korean Economy” category because despite most Koreans regarding living at home until they get married as a natural part of Korean culture, I personally regard it as 95% financially-based myself, and (surprisingly) most Koreans tend to agree with me when I explain why. But more on that later, now I have to rush and somehow make myself look photogenic.

By the way, I would have cut and pasted the article itself from a jpg of the page like yesterday as promised, but I then have no complaints with typing a whole three sentances of Korean by myself!

기혼남 40% “혼전동거 괜찮다”

2007년10월30일 화요일 Metro, p. 3.

기혼남성이 기혼여성에 비해 혼전 동거나 혼전 성관계에 보다 더 관대한 태도를 보이는 것으로 나타났다. 29일 한국보건사회연구원의 ‘2006년 거족보건복지실태조사’ 보고서에 따라면 8700여 명의 기혼여성과 1330여 명의 기혼남성을 상대로 ‘결혼과 관계없이 성관계를 갖는데 대해 어떻게 생각하느냐’고 물은 결과, 여성의 찬성 비율이 31.5%로 나타났고 남성의 찬성 비율은 41.3%였다.

40% of Married Men Say: “Living Together Before Marriage is Okay”

It has emerged that compared to married women, married men have more relaxed attitudes towards that living together and/or having sex before marriage. According to the results of the ‘2006 National Birthrate and Actual Conditions of Family Welfare and Health Survey,’ released by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA) on the 29th of October, of roughly 8700 married women and 1330 married men surveyed, when asked the question “What do you think of couples with no plans to marry having premarital sex?,” only 31.5% of women approved but 41.3 of men did.

For more results of that survey, which was much more wide-ranging and comprehensive than that single question above suggests, see the last post.

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