Social Affairs
Korean attitudes to marriage changing: think tank
April 26, 2016
The use of Korean word “bihon” -- referring to people who choose to remain unmarried -- has increased sevenfold on social media over the past five years, reflecting the people’s changing attitude toward marriage, said a private think tank Monday. (123RF)According to big data analyst company Daumsoft, its research on 700 million blog posts and 8.9 billion tweets by Koreans on the topic of marriage between Jan. 1, 2011, and April 20, 2016, showed an abrupt surge in the use of the word beginning fr