
▲ ์ถฉ๋จ ๊ณต์ฃผ์ ํ๊ตญ๋ฌธํ์ฐ์์์์ 6์ 15~16์ผ ์ด๋ฆฐ '๋๋ ์ ๋ก' ํ๋ก๊ทธ๋จ ์ฐธ๊ฐ์๋ค์ด 1๋1 ๋กํ ์ด์ ์ฐจ๋ด์ ํ๊ณ ์๋ค. Participants of the dating program "I am Jeolo” (Temple) talk to each other one-on-one at the Korean Culture Training Institute in Gongju, Chungcheongnam-do Province. The event was held from June 15-16. (Korean Buddhist Foundation for Social Welfare - ๋ํ๋ถ๊ต์กฐ๊ณ์ข ์ฌํ๋ณต์ง์ฌ๋จ)
์ฌ์ฐฐ์์ ์๊ฐํ ์ ํ๊ณ ์ ๋ถ ์ง์์ ๋ฐ์ผ๋ฉด์ ๋ฐ์ดํธ๋ฅผ ํ๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ฌผ๊ด์ด๋ ๊ณต์์์ ๊ฒฐํผ์์ ํ๊ณ ํ ๋ฌ์ ์์ธ 1๋ง ์๋ง ๋ด๋ฉด์ ์ ํผ์ง์ ๊พธ๋ฆฐ๋ค. ๊ฟ์ด ์๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ ํ๊ตญ์ ์ฐ์ ์ ๊ฒฐํผ์์ ํ ๋ชจ์ต์ด๋ค.
People going on blind or ordinary dates can now do so with government support. They can get married in public museums or parks, and pay just KRW 10,000 in rent per month for their new home after marriage. This is not a dream. This is how a new dating and wedding culture is being sponsored by the Korean government.
'2023๋ ์ธ๊ตฌ์ฃผํ์ด์กฐ์ฌ'์ ๋ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด ์ง๋ํด ํ๊ตญ์ ์ด ์ธ๊ตฌ๋(๋ด๊ตญ์ธ ๊ธฐ์ค) 4984๋ง ๋ช ์ผ๋ก ์ ๋ ๊ณผ ๋น๊ตํด 10๋ง1000๋ช (0.2%)์ด ๊ฐ์ํ๋ค. 2021๋ ์ดํ ๋งค๋ ์ค์ด๋๋ ์ถ์ธ๋ค. ์ง๋ํด ํฉ๊ณ์ถ์ฐ์จ๋ 0.72๋ช ์ผ๋ก 2022๋ (0.78๋ช )๊ณผ ๊ฒฌ์ค 0.06๋ช ์ค์ด ์ญ๋ ์ต์ ์น๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์์น์ ๋ค. ์๋ ํผ์ธ ๊ฑด์๋ 19๋ง4000๊ฑด. ์ง๋ 10๋ ๊ฐ ๋ฌด๋ ค 40%๋ ๊ฐ์ํ๋ค.
A 2023 census showed that the total population of Korea (not including foreign nationals) was 49.84 million, down 101,000 (0.2%) from the previous year. It has declined every year since 2021. Last year's total birthrate was 0.72, marking a new record, as it was lower than the 0.78 in 2022. There were 194,000 marriages last year, a 40% decrease over 10 years.
ํ๊ตญ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ์ฐ์ ์ ๊ฒฐํผ์ ์ ์ ํฌ๊ธฐํ๊ณ ์๋ค. ์ธ๊ตฌ์ ๋ฒฝ์ ์ด๋ํ ์๋ฐ์. ์ ์ถ์์ด ์ฌ๊ฐํ ์ฌํ๋ฌธ์ ๊ฐ ๋ ์ง๋ ์ด๋ฏธ ์ค๋๋ค. ๋ํต๋ น์ด ๋์ ๊ตญ๊ฐ๋น์์ฌํ๋ก ๊ท์ ํ ์ ๋๋ค.
An increasing number of Koreans are giving up on dating and marriage, causing a demographic cliff. The concurrent low birthrate has been a social problem for some time, which even the president has called a national crisis.
์ธ๊ตฌ์ ๋ฒฝ ์๊ธฐ์ ์ธ๊ตฌ์ ๋ต๊ธฐํ๋ถ ์ ์ค ๋ฑ ์ ๋ถ ์ฐจ์์ ๋์์ ์์ ์ ๊ตญ ์ง๋ฐฉ์์น๋จ์ฒด๋ ๋ฌผ๋ก ๋ฏผ๊ฐ ๋จ์ฒด๊น์ง ํ์ ๊ฑท์ด๋ถ์๋ค. ๋ฏธํผ ๋จ๋ ๋ง๋จ์ ์ฃผ์ ํ๋ฉฐ ์ค๋งค์ ๋์๋ ๋ฑ ์ธ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๋๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ์ํ ๊ฐ์ข ํ๋ก๊ทธ๋จ๊ณผ ์ ์ฑ ์ ์์๋ด๋ ๋ชจ์์๋ค. ์ฌ์ง์ด ๋ถ๊ต๊ณ๊น์ง ๊ฐ์ธํ๋ค.
The government has taken measures to resolve this crisis, such as by establishing a ministry to cover population strategy and planning. Local governments and private organizations have also stepped in. They have arranged meetings between single men and women, and come up with various programs and strategies to increase the population. Even Buddhism has joined in.
์ถฉ๋จ ๋น์ง์์ ์จ ๊ฒฌ์ฐ 3ํธ์ ์์ธ ๊ด์ ๊ตฌ ์ถ์ ์ง๋ 9ํธ๊ฐ ์ง๋ 9์ผ ์ฌ์ฐฐ์์ ์ฒ์ ๋ง๋ ์ฌ๋์ ๋น ์ก๋ค. ๋ํ๋ถ๊ต์กฐ๊ณ์ข ์ฌํ๋ณต์ง์ฌ๋จ์ด ์ด์ํ๋ '๋๋ ์ ๋ก'๋ ํ๋ก๊ทธ๋จ์ ํตํด์๋ค. ํ ํ์คํ ์ด์ ์๊ฐํ ์ ๊ฒฐํฉํ ์ฝ์ ํธ๋ค. ์๋ฅ ํ๋ก๊ทธ๋จ '๋๋ ์๋ก' ์ด๋ฆ์ ์ฐจ์ฉํ '๋๋ ์ ๋ก'๋ 20~30๋ ๋ฏธํผ ๋จ๋ ์๊ฒ ๋ง๋จ์ ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณตํ๋ค. ์ฐธ๊ฐ์๋ค์ 1๋ฐ2์ผ ๋์ ์ฌ์ฐฐ์์ ์ง๋ด๋ฉด์ ๋ค์ํ ํ๋ก๊ทธ๋จ์ ์ฐธ์ฌํด ์๋ก๋ฅผ ์์๊ฐ๊ณ , ๋ง์์ ๋๋ ์ด์ฑ๊ณผ ์ปคํ์ด ๋๋ค.
A man from Dangjin, Chungcheongnam-do Province, and a woman from Gwangak-gu District, Seoul, met for the first time on Aug. 9 and fell in love. They met each other through a program called "I am Jeolo" run by the Korean Buddhist Foundation for Social Welfare. Jeol means "temple" in Korean. The program is named after the dating reality show "I am Solo."
The program combines a temple stay with blind dates. It offers opportunities for a rendezvous between single men and women in their 20s and 30s. Participants stay for one night and two days in a temple, engage in various programs to become acquainted with one another, and perhaps find a partner.