”Is marriage a disadvantage?” One in five newlyweds ”postpones” marriage registration = South Korea

It has been revealed that one in five newlywed couples in South Korea have postponed filing their marriage registration for more than a year after getting married.
On the 14th, Rep. Jung Il Woo-yeon, a member of the National Assembly's Strategy and Finance Committee, made a statement through the National Data Protection Agency.
According to the documents obtained, the total number of marriages fell by 84,000, from 306,000 in 2014 to 222,000 last year.
Furthermore, while the number of marriages themselves is declining, the number of couples who are "postponing" their marriage registration is also rapidly increasing.
The number of cases where marriage registration was postponed for more than one year increased sharply from 10.9% in 2014 to 19.0% last year, and the number of cases where it was postponed for more than two years increased from 5.2% to 8.8%.
The background to this phenomenon is analyzed to be the structural problem that "filing a marriage registration actually reduces various preferential treatments under various systems" and the existence of the so-called "marriage penalty."
Typical examples include "reducing the mortgage borrowing limit," "restricting opportunities for housing lotteries," and "increased taxation on acquisition taxes."
Regarding this, Rep. Chung said, "These statistics are a real problem facing the younger generation.
"This shows that," he said, emphasizing, "In order to move forward as a country where people want to get married and have and raise children, we must completely redesign our system so that marriage is an option, not a disadvantage."
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