According to the "2024 Marriage and Divorce Statistics" released by the National Statistical Office on the 22nd, the number of marriages recorded 222,412 last year. Compared to the previous year, it increased by 14.8 percent. The growth rate is the highest since statistics were compiled in 1970, El.kz cites mk.co.kr.

In particular, the number of marriages between Korean men and Japanese women was 1,176, the highest since 2015. The figure is 40% higher than in 2023.

Park Hyun-jung, head of the population trend division at the National Statistical Office, said, "The boycott of Japan seems to have resulted in more international marriages between Korea and Japan in the process of cutting off exchanges between young people between the two countries and then recovering."

Meanwhile, the number of marriages with foreign women increased 6.2 percent to 16,000 and that with foreign men increased 2.6 percent to 5,000.

The nationality of foreign wives was highest in the order of Vietnam (32.1%), China (16.7%), and Thailand (13.7%), and the United States (28.8%), China (17.6%), and Vietnam (15.0%).