Older People In South Korea Are Using Dating Apps To Choose A New Partner

Older people in South Korea are now using more and more dating apps. They are doing this to choose a new partner for themselves. According to the news, his sons and daughters have also started helping him in this work. Because of this, the popularity of dating apps has increased rapidly in South Korea.

59-year-old JS Oh told the British newspaper The Financial Times- ‘My daughter bought me a coupon for a dating app. It gives me great satisfaction to meet someone of my generation.’ Through this app, Oh met a man four years older than him. Now she is living with him. Prior to this, Oh was living life with her two dogs.

Experts say that the price of rapid economic growth and social changes in South Korea during the past decades has been paid by the elderly. Due to the breakdown of traditional families and the lack of adequate arrangements from the government, they have been forced to live in solitude. South Korea has a higher rate of poverty and suicide among older people than other developed countries, according to government data. But now with the advent of the app, new hopes have arisen for them. Experts say that due to the changed social thinking, now the children are also helping their parents in finding a new partner.

56-year-old JW Kim told the Financial Times- ‘Although I used to live with my adult children, I often started feeling lonely. For a long time I wanted to meet someone. When Kim’s son got his salary, he bought a coupon from a service agency named Couple.Net and gave it to his mother. Since then, Kim has been dating two men.

Kim said- “The first man is a little smaller. The other has a tendency to cheat. Both of them are not of my type. Still it is fun to meet them. The thought of dating makes my heart beat. Then you forget your loneliness and look forward to the date of meeting happily.”

Lee Wong-jin, president of Soonu, the company that runs the dating app Couple.Net, said- ‘Big cities like Seoul and Busan get in touch with us in large numbers. Even people from America are contacting. This is because families have become smaller, forcing elderly people to live alone. We were contacted by a 93 year old customer who wanted to date.

The birth rate in South Korea has fallen sharply. There the birth rate per woman fell to just 0.84 last year. On the other hand, the number of people above 65 years of age has crossed 85 lakhs. It is estimated that by 2040 this number will exceed one crore 70 lakhs. Looking at this trend, it has been estimated that the problem of loneliness of the elderly will be deeper.

Older people in South Korea are now using more and more dating apps. They are doing this to choose a new partner for themselves. According to the news, his sons and daughters have also started helping him in this work. Because of this, the popularity of dating apps has increased rapidly in South Korea.

59-year-old JS Oh told the British newspaper The Financial Times- ‘My daughter bought me a coupon for a dating app. It gives me great satisfaction to meet someone of my generation.’ Through this app, Oh met a man four years older than him. Now she is living with him. Prior to this, Oh was living life with her two dogs.

Experts say that the price of rapid economic growth and social changes in South Korea during the past decades has been paid by the elderly. Due to the breakdown of traditional families and the lack of adequate arrangements from the government, they have been forced to live in solitude. South Korea has a higher rate of poverty and suicide among older people than other developed countries, according to government data. But now with the advent of the app, new hopes have arisen for them. Experts say that due to the changed social thinking, now the children are also helping their parents in finding a new partner.

56-year-old JW Kim told the Financial Times- ‘Although I used to live with my adult children, I often started feeling lonely. For a long time I wanted to meet someone. When Kim’s son got his salary, he bought a coupon from a service agency named Couple.Net and gave it to his mother. Since then, Kim has been dating two men.

Kim said- “The first man is a little smaller. The other has a tendency to cheat. Both of them are not of my type. Still it is fun to meet them. The thought of dating makes my heart beat. Then you forget your loneliness and look forward to the date of meeting happily.”

Lee Wong-jin, president of Soonu, the company that runs the dating app Couple.Net, said- ‘Big cities like Seoul and Busan get in touch with us in large numbers. Even people from America are contacting. This is because families have become smaller, forcing elderly people to live alone. We were contacted by a 93 year old customer who wanted to date.

The birth rate in South Korea has fallen sharply. There the birth rate per woman fell to just 0.84 last year. On the other hand, the number of people above 65 years of age has crossed 85 lakhs. It is estimated that by 2040 this number will exceed one crore 70 lakhs. Looking at this trend, it has been estimated that the problem of loneliness of the elderly will be deeper.