Only 1 in 2 adults intends to get married, less than half intend to have children = South Korea

It was found that only half of Korean adults intend to get married. In addition, less than half of adults were thinking of having children in the future.
The Korea Institute for Health and Social Sciences conducted a survey of 2,000 men and women between the ages of 19 and 49 from August 8 to 25 last year.
As a result of the survey, only 51.7% of the 1,059 people, excluding those who are currently legally married, answered that they were thinking about getting married.
24.5% of respondents said they had no intention of getting married, and 19.1% said they could not decide yet.
By gender, more men (56.3%) had the intention of getting married than women (47.2%).
Furthermore, when we asked everyone surveyed if they would like to have children, the most common answer, 46.0%, was ``I don't think I will have children.'' The number of respondents who answered “I think I will give birth” is 2.
It was 8.3%. Among married people who do not yet have children (including those living together, in a common-law marriage, and in a legal marriage), the responses were ``I think I will have a child'' (46.5%), ``I can't decide yet'' (26.4%), and ``I don't think I will have a child.''
” (24.7%). Lee Seo Yeon, a research fellow at the Korea Institute of Health and Social Sciences, said, ``In order to increase people's use of policies and to ensure that policies influence their choices about marriage and childbirth,
We must do our utmost in public relations and education,'' and ``we must continue to conduct research in order to promote policies that reflect the viewpoints of the public, who are the policy consumers.''