A new survey finds that more South Koreans feel that marriage is not a must.
 
According to the survey carried out by Statistics Korea on 38-thousand-600 people aged over 13 of 25-thousand-233 households nationwide, nearly 52 percent of respondents said that people must get married. That’s down four-point-nine percentage points from 2014.
 
The percentage of men that said tying the knot is a must stood at 56-point-three percent, down five-point-two percentage points from two years ago. The percentage of women who felt the same way fell from 52-point-three percent to 47-and-a-half percent during the same period.
 
Forty-eight percent of the surveyed said they believe that a couple can live together even if they are not married. The number of such responses has steadily climbed since 2010. In particular, more than half of male respondents supported the idea.