2011년 11월 17일 목요일

Wedding custom in Korea


Today, happy wedding is became a difficult mission in Korea. Many young people want to achieve that but reality is not. Many people who have a partner for marriage face some problems before get married. They can’t get married only their mind or love because of exist many problems. They have to prepare house or other things and they also have to understand each other family members. Some people said that marriage isn’t just union of men and women, It’s union of each other family.

Differently as I mentioned, It’s also difficult to find well suited spouse if you don’t have a girlfriend or boyfriend. In this case, we used matchmaker. This way also has a problem. Most young people want to marry with their real love. My parents actually met by matchmaker. They don’t had huge expectation to each other and also don’t need much money at that time. At first, they don’t know each other well but as times goes by they are getting to know each other and finally bought a house in the Seoul. But this way has changed. Many matchmaking sites estimate people’s job, wealth or educational background. After that many people are looking for good background of spouse without personality or their values. In my opinion, most TV dramas have responsibility of this problem. These dramas don’t reflect our reality. They usually cover almost the rich people’s story so some young people have wrong expectation of marriage.   

Most serious problem is money. Marriage needs a lot of money. It gives to heavy burden for young people. In general, Man prepared the house and women prepare the other things such as furniture, electronics and home appliances in Korea. But I think that it is impossible to get a house for ordinary young men who want to live in the Seoul because of overinflated house prices. Furthermore, lease price is also high so they need a household loan. Besides, childcare expanse is also expensive. I think that many young people hesitate to marry because of these reasons. Government should lower housing prices and allocate more money to childcare expenses.

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  1. In my book, your opinion is very good solution. If government lower housing price or interest rate for the loan, more people can marry. Children are problem, too. Because we should spend a lot of money for raising them..

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  2. But decreasing the housing price and childcare expenses seem too difficulty for our economy situation. I think we should change our recognition about our wedding ceremony. We shouldn't spend a lot of money.

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