Nearly half of newlyweds within five years of marriage have already owned a home.
Newlyweds earned an average of fifty-five million won a year on combined income, but they were in debt of one hundred million won.
More than 40% of newlyweds have no children, and the number of childbirths is higher as they have housing and their wives are not engaged in economic activity.
According to the `` Statistical Results of 2018 Newly Married Couples '' by the National Statistical Office on January 12, 461,000 of newly married newly married couples who reported marriage in the last five years as of November last year owned 46,10,000 couples. In pairs (43.8%).
The percentage of married couples rose 0.2 percentage points from the previous year.
Among them, 385,000 couples (36.6%) owned one house and 62,000 couples (5.9%) owned two.
14,000 couples (1.3%) had more than three houses.
The older the marriage, the greater the share of homeowners. In the fifth year of marriage, more than half of homeowners accounted for 53.2%.
Of newlywed couples, the working-level share of couples working together was 47.5% (500,000 pairs), up 2.7 percentage points from the previous year.
In recent years, married couples have a higher proportion of double-earned workers, and 53.9% of the first-year married couples have double-earned workers.
The average annual income is 55.04 million won, an increase of 2.26 million won (4.3%) from the previous year.
The average income of working couples was 73.64 million won, 1.7 times that of working parents.
The proportion of couples with bank loans, such as banks or savings banks, was 85.1 percent, up 1.7 percentage points from a year ago.
The median loan balance is 100 million won, an increase of 10 million won from the previous year.
In particular, in the case of dual-earners, the median balance of the loan amounted to 111.15 million won, and even if the owner owned the house, the loan was 130.15 million won, higher than that of the homeless couple (74.2 million won).
Of the 1.32 million newlyweds, including first-married and remarried, the couple living together were 1,19,000 pairs, 86.8% of which were 0.1 percentage points lower than the previous year.
Of the newlyweds, 174,000 couples (13.2%) lived separately, one of which was 58,000 (4.4%).
The number of first-generation households living alone with each other was 42,90,000 pairs, up 11,000 pairs (2.7%) from 2017.
As the newly married couple, Gyeonggi took the first place with 27.7%.
Seoul (18.7%) and Gyeongnam (6.4%) were next.
The number of newlyweds decreased year-on-year on all attempts, but increased 12.7% in Sejong alone.
Divided into the city and districts, Gangseo-gu and Songpa-gu, Seoul were the areas where most newlyweds lived.
Gwanak-gu and Nowon-gu were also in the top 10.
It is up 2.6 percentage points from the previous year.
In particular, 24.3% of married 3 ~ 5 year olds have no children, up 2.5 percentage points from the previous year.
The average number of children born to a married couple is 0.74, which is a decrease from 0.78 in 2017.
Korea's total fertility rate for women of childbearing age was 0.98 last year.
The higher the age of marriage, the less economic activity a wife had, and the more homeowners she had, the greater the tendency to have more children.
The average number of births for couples in the second year was 0.5, but in the fifth year, 1.19.
54.3% of working couples have children, which is lower than single working couples (65.7%).
The average number of single-earner couples is 0.66 and 0.83 for single-parent couples.
In particular, the number of births of a couple whose wife is not economically active is 0.84, but the number of births is 0.66 when economically active.
The average number of children born to a couple who owned a home was 0.81, more than homeless couples (0.69).
Child care for children under the age of 5 was the largest with 48.4% of day care.
Home care was followed by 45.6% and kindergarten by 3.2%.
The share of day care for dual- income couples was 51.2%, 9.7 percentage points higher than that of single-earners.
Divided by couple's income, however, the higher the combined income section, the smaller the proportion of child birth.
The proportion of children born to newlyweds whose first income was over 100 million won was 51.4%.
On the other hand, it was 63.5% for less than 10 million won.
The proportion of births in the income range of 10 to 30 million won was 64.8%, 64.3% for 30 to 50 million won, and 58.7% for 50 to 70 million won.
The Statistics Bureau explained that newly married couples tend to not give birth to newly married couples in the upper income category because the income of newly married couples is closely related to whether they earn double income.