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is a friendly economy time.
Reporter Han Ji-yeon is with me.
You must get married.
Do you think the number of people who think like this has decreased a little compared to last year?
<Reporter>
Yes, it's a survey by the National Statistical Office, and it turns out that only half of the people, only 50%, think that you must get married.
It decreased by 1.2 percentage points from the survey two years ago.
43.2% said, "It's okay not to be married," and 3.6% said, "You shouldn't be married."
The need for marriage was greater for men.
When both singles and married people are included, more than half of men (56%) and less than half (44%) of women said they should get married.
When it comes to singles only, 37% of men and 22% of women said they should get married, widening the gap.
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Are the perceptions of cohabitation becoming more positive over time?
<Reporter>
Yes, I do not necessarily marry like this, but the idea of cohabitation between men and women is becoming more lenient. They answered that unmarried men and women can live together.
The number of people who thought they could have children without getting married also increased by 4 percentage points to 35%, with women 8.
It seems that the thoughts about marriage and cohabitation itself have become a little more free, but that does not mean that the satisfaction with family relationships has decreased.
Overall satisfaction increased in all family relationships.
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Why do you think you don't have to get married?
<Reporter>
Yes, the first and second reason for not getting married is because of economic things, money.
In other words, 'there is no money', that is, no money for marriage was the most common, with 3 out of 10 respondents.
Unstable employment followed at 15%.
There was also a gender difference in the reason for not getting married. Lack of marriage funds was the undisputed number one for both men and women, but it was split in second place.
Men cited instability in their employment status, and women because they did not feel the need to get married.
<Anchor>
They say that house prices have fallen a lot this year, but this situation has been confirmed in reality and indicators?
<Reporter>
Yes, from January to September, the cumulative decline in apartment sales across the country came out to -7.14%, which is the lowest ever since the 2006 survey.
Looking at the metropolitan area alone, it fell by more than 10%, which was also the largest drop ever.
Apartment prices in October are also on a downward trend, so if this atmosphere continues until the end of the year, this year's annual decline is expected to be the largest ever.
There is a big reason why people are reluctant to borrow money at high interest rates these days, but because of the perception that house prices are at their peak, there is a transactional cliff where sales do not take place.
<Anchor>
Then, it will definitely affect the official price next year, right?
<Reporter>
Yes, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport has recently started calculating the public price for houses and land on January 1 next year, but it seems that there will be more places that fall than this year.
If the realization rate, which means the degree to which the house price is reflected, is frozen at this year's level as planned by the government, next year's official price will be set at an average of 71.5% of the market price.
In the case of regions such as Gyeonggi and Incheon, where the actual transaction price has fallen by more than 10% by September, it is expected that next year's official price will drop by at least 5% from this year.