{"id":262901,"date":"2026-06-01T10:26:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T01:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tenbizt.com\/en\/news\/uncategorized\/2026\/06\/01\/600000-households-left-behind-why-koreas-family-laws-are-broken\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T10:26:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T01:26:42","slug":"600000-households-left-behind-why-koreas-family-laws-are-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenbizt.com\/en\/news\/social\/2026\/06\/01\/600000-households-left-behind-why-koreas-family-laws-are-broken\/","title":{"rendered":"600,000 Households Left Behind: Why Korea&#8217;s Family Laws Are Broken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Translation result<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" size-large><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-union.tenbizt.com\/contents\/crawler-dev\/image\/2026\/05\/CP-2023-0225\/image-157d42aa-2c36-45d0-9141-56558278a0d9.jpeg\" alt=\"AI\" \uc0dd\uc131 \uc378\ub124\uc77c title=\"10\ub144\" \ud568\uaed8 \uc0b4\uc558\ub294\ub370 \uc218\uc220 \ub3d9\uc758 \ubabb \ud55c\ub2e4\u2026\ube44\uce5c\uc871 \uac00\uad6c 60\ub9cc, \ubc95 \ubc16\uc758 \uac00\uc871 \ud604\uc2e4 \ubc1c\uce75 23><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\n  Image generated by AI to help readers understand the article<br \/>\n <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After a roommate collapsed from acute appendicitis, their partner stayed up all night to care for them \u2014 yet was not allowed to sign the surgical consent form. They had to wait until a blood relative, who hadn\u2019t been contacted in more than ten years, could travel from another city. This case starkly exposes how much of Korean society remains trapped by an outdated idea of \u201cfamily.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"60%25eb%25a7%258c-%25ea%25b0%2580%25ea%25b5%25ac-%25eb%25b2%2595-%25eb%25b0%2596%25ec%259d%2598-%25ea%25b0%2580%25ec%25a1%25b1\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">600,000 households: families left outside the law<\/h2>\n<p>Statistics Korea reports that \u201cnonkin households\u201d \u2014 households of up to five people living together without blood or marital ties \u2014 jumped roughly 36% in four years, from 423,459 households in 2020 to 580,413 in 2024. The forms of cohabitation are growing more varied: unmarried couples, same-sex partners, and groups of friends sharing a home.<\/p>\n<p>The share of births outside marriage more than doubled, from 2.5% in 2020 to 5.8% in 2024. While the social reality has shifted rapidly, public institutions still operate within a 1970s \u201cnuclear-family\u201d framework based on marriage certificates and family registries.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" size-large><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-union.tenbizt.com\/contents\/crawler-dev\/image\/2026\/05\/CP-2023-0225\/image-ea8f05e7-bff7-4d3e-b092-dfac70f787ce.jpeg\" alt=\"\ube44\uce5c\uc871\" \uac00\uad6c\uac00 \uae09\uc99d\ud55c \ud604\uc2e4 title=\"10\ub144\" \ud568\uaed8 \uc0b4\uc558\ub294\ub370 \uc218\uc220 \ub3d9\uc758 \ubabb \ud55c\ub2e4\u2026\ube44\uce5c\uc871 \uac00\uad6c 60\ub9cc, \ubc95 \ubc16\uc758 \uac00\uc871 \ud604\uc2e4 \ubc1c\uce75 24><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\n  The rapid rise of nonkin households \/ Yonhap News<br \/>\n <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"%25ec%2588%2598%25ec%2588%25a0-%25eb%258f%2599%25ec%259d%2598%25eb%258f%2584-%25ec%2583%2581%25ec%2586%258d%25eb%258f%2584-%25eb%258f%258c%25eb%25b4%2584-%25ed%259c%25b4%25ea%25b0%2580%25eb%258f%2584-%25ec%2597%2586%25eb%258b%25a4\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">No legal rights to consent, inherit, or take caregiving leave<\/h2>\n<p>Under current law, spouses and blood relatives have the automatic authority to consent to emergency surgery, to be registered as dependents under national health insurance to reduce medical costs, and to inherit and manage funerals when a family member dies. Nonkin household members \u2014 even those who have lived together and cared for one another for over a decade \u2014 are effectively excluded from these rights.<\/p>\n<p>Cohabitants cannot take designated caregiving leave or use sick leave to care for a housemate, and they are ineligible for tax credits or priority access to public housing programs for newlyweds. Their frustration \u2014 \u201cwe pay the same taxes and shoulder the same responsibilities\u201d \u2014 is not mere grievance but a justified protest against structural discrimination.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"%25ed%2595%25b4%25ec%2599%25b8%25eb%258a%2594-%25ec%259d%25b4%25eb%25af%25b8-%25eb%258b%25b5%25ec%259d%2584-%25ec%25b0%25be%25ec%2595%2598%25eb%258b%25a4\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other countries have already found solutions<\/h2>\n<p>France\u2019s civil solidarity pact (PACS), introduced in 1999, grants cohabitants tax and health\u2011insurance rights comparable to marriage regardless of gender or marital status; it now records more than 100,000 registrations a year. The Netherlands accords registered partnerships legal effects nearly identical to marriage, and Sweden extends parental\u2011leave rights to parents\u2019 cohabitants while supporting diverse caregiving arrangements at the state level.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" size-large><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-union.tenbizt.com\/contents\/crawler-dev\/image\/2026\/05\/CP-2023-0225\/image-aa63da27-2f61-4d13-a0c0-06c46836ee9c.jpeg\" alt=\"\ub3d9\uac70\uc778\" \ub3cc\ubd04\uad8c \ud655\ub300 \uc694\uad6c title=\"10\ub144\" \ud568\uaed8 \uc0b4\uc558\ub294\ub370 \uc218\uc220 \ub3d9\uc758 \ubabb \ud55c\ub2e4\u2026\ube44\uce5c\uc871 \uac00\uad6c 60\ub9cc, \ubc95 \ubc16\uc758 \uac00\uc871 \ud604\uc2e4 \ubc1c\uce75 25><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\n  Calls to expand caregiving rights for cohabitants \/ Yonhap News<br \/>\n <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In South Korea, lawmakers have proposed a Domestic Partner Law to recognize cohabitants as family equivalents and an Independent Birth Support Act to subsidize assisted reproduction for unmarried women. But legislative debate has stalled for years amid objections from some religious groups\u2014who fear such laws could pave the way to legalizing same\u2011sex marriage\u2014and resistance from conservative political forces.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"%25eb%258f%258c%25eb%25b4%2584%25eb%25a7%259d-%25eb%25b6%2595%25ea%25b4%25b4-%25eb%258d%2594-%25ed%2581%25b0-%25ec%2582%25ac%25ed%259a%258c%25ec%25a0%2581-%25eb%25b9%2584%25ec%259a%25a9%25ec%259d%25b4-%25ec%2598%25a8%25eb%258b%25a4\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">If care networks break down, social costs will rise<\/h2>\n<p>Experts warn that leaving the legal gaps around nonkin households unaddressed could undermine the basic caregiving infrastructure amid low birthrates and a rapidly aging population. As citizens form informal support networks to care for one another, outdated laws obstruct their efforts, producing a heavier social toll in the form of isolated deaths and forced self\u2011reliance.<\/p>\n<p>A 2023 family survey by the Korean Women\u2019s Development Institute found that 80.3% of respondents support prohibiting discrimination based on family type. 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