‘Gray divorces’ overtake early-marriage splits for first time

Gray divorces among couples married for more than 30 years outnumbered divorces among couples married for less than five years in 2025 for the first time since South Korea began compiling related data in 1990, government data showed Tuesday. According to the Ministry of Data and Statistics, 15,628 couples who had been married for more than 30 years divorced last year, exceeding the 14,392 couples who divorced within five years of marriage. When the data was first collected in 1990, divorces amon

By The Korea Herald