Original title: Survey: 60% of South Korea's “Gen Z” refuse to marry 70% refuse to have children, say cohabitation is better

China News Network, January 3 - According to the “Korea Daily” report, people born around 2000, when information technology developed rapidly, are called “Gen Z”. They will be the main actors shouldering the burden of society after 2020. According to the results of a survey, most “Gen Z” don't want to get married or have children.

The results of public opinion surveys and in-depth interviews conducted by the “Korea Daily” targeting “Gen Z” show that in their knowledge and thoughts, there is a blueprint for a new society that no previous generation has experienced. In particular, their understanding of marriage and childbearing is contained.

In the “Gen Z awareness survey” commissioned by the “Korea Daily” Korea Research Company, 65.1% of people think “it's OK not to get married.” This is very different from the attitude of “Gen X” of their parents to marriage. Furthermore, 74% of Gen Z representatives said, “It's OK not to have children.”

Furthermore, changes in understanding “Gen Z” were also confirmed in in-depth interviews. Kim Sun-young, who joined a major corporate finance company in Seoul 2 years ago, is 25 years old. When asked about her marriage plans, she immediately shook her head. Although her life is more stable now than when she was in college, she confessed, “I probably won't get married for the rest of my life.”

“I've been competing all my life, and it's been hard to get into a big business. But if I get married and have kids, I'll probably have to give up on my life in the end. If you want to take care of your mother-in-law's family, you have to quit your job if you have children. 'Job+marriage' is an old saying. It's not better to live together now.”

From December 4 to 6, 2019, the “Korea Daily” conducted a public opinion survey of 500 “Z era” people born between 1995 and 2005 and 500 “generation X” people born in the 70s. After the public opinion survey, 31 “Z Era” people were also divided into 3 groups of high school students, university students, and workers, and in-depth interviews were conducted separately.