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After a lull of several months, matchmaking agencies are back with their unrepresentative surveys, this time informing the public that getting remarried is far more difficult than getting married for the first time. This could be so because the second time round people put more emphasis on factors like education level, jobs and wages than in the romantic flush of the first time.
But a survey of 2,000 couples by matchmaker Sunwoo suggests that if their conditions are met, the courtships of people looking to remarry are much shorter than those of first-timers. The survey showed that respondents who remarried went out with eligible candidates for an average of 178 days, 81 days less than people marrying for the first time.
Another matchmaker HaengbokchulbalĄ¯s head Choi Won-il said customers in the market for a second or third marriage tended to avoid candidates who remind them of ex-husbands or wives. Thus if the ex-spouse had blood type A, the new spouse should have a different blood type. If the ex-husband liked drinking, agencies pick abstemious candidates.
Children with the ex-spouse are an important factor in tying the knot again, with some customers specifying preferences for the gender of the children. Many couples looking to remarry tend to live together for about six months before formally tying the knot to see the reactions of their children, a matchmaker said.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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