Changes in average age for first-time marriages number of first-time brides in their 30s exceeds those in their 20s
달라진 결혼 풍속도 30대 신부가 20대보다 많아져
Wedding cultures have changed in South Korea, with the most noticeable being the average age of first-time brides.
Women in their 20s were once seen to be in their prime for marriage.
But now, there are more first-time brides in their 30s than 20s.
Lee Eun-jin reports.
The latest trend in weddings in South Korea is that there are now more brides in their 30s than in their 20s.
The time that a woman's twenties were considered the most suitable age to be married, is a thing of the past.
According to data released by the Korean Statistical Information Service, KOSIS, on Tuesday, there were 190-thousand marriages in 2021, of which 157-thousand were first-time marriages.
In terms of the age of women being married for the first time, some 76-thousand-900, or roughly half, were in their thirties.
71-thousand-263 or roughly 45-point-5 percent were in their twenties, 6-thousand-564, or 4-point-2 percent were in their forties, while 798 teenagers tied the knot.
This is the first time since records began in 1990, that the first marriages of women in their thirties exceeded those in their twenties.
In the 1990s, the yearly average was 333-thousand first-time brides in their twenties, far exceeding the 19-thousand in their thirties.
The figure in the 2000s was 241-thousand in their twenties and 31-thousand in their thirties.
By the 2010s the gap had narrowed to 173-thousand in their twenties and 85-thousand in their thirties.
For men, 2005 was the year that the number of first-time grooms in their thirties exceeded those in their twenties.
Data for 2021 shows that some 9 percent of men getting married for the first time were in their forties.
The average age of those getting wed for the first time is showing a certain increase to 31-point-1 years old for women, and 33-point-4 for men.
That is at least a five-year increase from the average ages in 1991, which were 24-point-8 for women, and 27-point-9 for men.
Lee Eunjin, Arirang News.
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2023-01-10, 12:00 (KST)
