The Institute for Korean Studies presents:
"Korean Millennials: Their Views on Dating and Marriage"
Hyunjoon Park
University of Pennsylvania
Abstract: A distinctive feature of Korean Millennials, who were born after 1980 and entered their 20s in 2000s, is their high levels of educational attainment, the most educated population in the world. Like their counterparts in other parts of the world, Korean Millennials are increasingly delaying and avoiding marriage. However, the trend of retreat from marriage in Korea is so impactful that it has given rise to the term, “sampo generation,” who are giving up three aspects: dating, marriage, and parenthood. In this talk, I discuss why Korean Millennials retrench from dating and marriage, drawing from diverse explanations based on economic, demographic, and cultural factors. Moreover, I present recent survey results showing Korean Millennials’ perceptions and attitudes toward dating and marriage, commenting some possible linkages with their actual dating and marriage behaviors. Download the PDF flyer here.
Hyunjoon Park is Korea Foundation Professor of Sociology and Director of the James Joo-Jin Kim Center for Korean Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2005. Park is interested in family and social stratification in cross-national comparative perspective, focusing on South Korea and other East Asian societies. In recent years, he has studied changes in marriage, divorce, and living arrangements as well as consequences of demographic and economic trends for education, well-being, and socioeconomic outcomes of children, adolescents, and young adults in Korea. Park has published more than 70 peer-reviewed papers in leading journals including Demography, Social Science & Medicine, Social Forces, Journal of Marriage and Family, Annual Review of Sociology, and Demographic Research, among others. He is the author of the book, Re-Evaluating Education in Japan and Korea: De-mystifying Stereotypes (2013 Routledge). He is a coauthor of the book, Diversity and the Transition to Adulthood in America (with Phoebe Ho and Grace Kao, University of California Press 2022).
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This event is supported by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant to The Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center.
