Sexual attitudes changing in South Korea
SEOUL, Two-thirds of South Korean college students said premarital
sex was acceptable, reflecting an increasingly liberal mindset
among Korean youths, a survey showed.
Bien-Aller, a Seoul-based matchmaking company, conducted a survey
of 528 male and female college students across the country between
April 25 and May 27. The survey showed that 67.4 percent of
respondents said having sex had nothing to do with marriage, while
the remaining 32.6 percent said either they would never have
premarital sex, or sexual relations were acceptable only if a
couple planned to marry.
About 35 percent of 249 male students said it was okay to have sex
with someone they loved, whereas 28 percent said sex without love
was okay. Nearly 13 percent said they would have sex only with
someone they planned to marry.
Of 279 female students, 27 percent said they would have pre-marital
sexual relations only with a person they planned to marry, and 17
percent said they would never have sex before marriage.
Male students are more willing to have casual sex than their female
counterparts, the survey concluded.