The author is the chair of the Gender Equality Committee at the Hansun Foundation and a former head of the Korea Population, Health and Welfare Association. International marriages have steadily ...

Japanese media reported that so-called "fake singlehood" couples in South Korea—who delay marriage registration to avoid real ...

A woman walks past a wedding dress shop in Seoul. The number of newly married couples fell more than 6% to around 1 million in 2022, and the proportion of the couples having no children reached an all ...

Marriage has always been an important rite of passage for mankind. In Asia, where family ties and conservative culture have been dominant forces for centuries, marriage is seen as a stepping stone to ...

Rama Hyeweon Kim (Harvard Law School) has recently posted to SSRN her paper Historicizing Same-Sex Marriage Debate in the Legal Periphery: Savigny, Nakagawa, and the Korean Marriage, 33 Minn. J. Int'l ...

From BTS to Squid Game to high-end beauty standards, South Korea reigns as a global exporter of pop culture and entertainment. Just 70 years ago, it would have seemed impossible. For the next episode ...

Students in last semester’s “North Korea and Religion” course studied eleven memoirs written by North Korean defectors. Then, on the final day of class in December, they heard directly from one. The ...