The Meaning of the International Marriage in Korea

Nowadays in Korea, international marriage has increased since 2000 rapidly. Increase in this international marriage is not the change of the marriage from the influences of globalization. Because Korean people have protected their blood principle rigidly for a long time. It is a big change increasing to international marriage in Korea, and it is shaking now family value from the bottom.

In this report I ask why has international marriages increased in Korea rapidly these days? Also, who and why do people choose an international marriage? I pay attention to the change of the marriage and the family in Korea today and intended to consider the meaning of international marriage.

This study developed the result of the data analysis of the census (1995, 2010) that I analyzed before. In the former analysis, I compared the change that was in the marriage form with the census of 1995 and 2010 according to sex, age, and educational background. The result implies from the rapid increase of international marriage today in Korea that it is due to the increase in high educational background of the woman from the 1990s and the economic power drop of the man from the late 1990s.  Based on these findings, I will include variables such as economic activities state, occupation, occupational position and compare and contrast according to the man, woman and combination of couples who chose international marriage using census data. Furthermore, I will use the "dynamics statistics data" and cast the education level between the couples who married a person from a different nationality, the variable such as the nationality of the partner and consider the meaning of the international marriage in Korea these days by clarifying the sociodemographic characteristic of the couple who choose to international marriage.