ARTICLE ON KBS GLOBAL - Age, the Least Important Thing in Love
I cracked when Thet sent an email regarding the above title.
Well, just to show that love when it comes to love there is not set of rules to follow. Just want to share this to everybody and thanks Thet for sharing this news.
My comment, well cant say much except, aja aja fighting to those who already found theirs, good luck to those who are still in the process and dream on to those who are fishing for one.
Age, the Least Important Thing in Love
The number of younger-man-older-woman couples has been on the rise recently. A recent survey shows that the number of married couples with wives older than the husbands--which stood at just 8.7 percent a decade ago--grew to 12.2 percent last year. As a matter of fact, any negative perception of couples with younger men and older women disappeared quite some time ago.
The results of a survey conducted by a matchmaking firm attest to significant changes in public perception: more than 49 percent of 1,000 polled single women nationwide said they would want to marry a man who is younger than they are, and more than 53 percent of the surveyed men liked the idea of marrying an older woman. Slightly less than half of respondents cited an age difference of two to three years as the ideal age difference between a younger husband and an older wife. As for reasons for marrying a younger man, about 40 percent of women cited their desire to maintain equality in their marital relationship, followed by the desire to stay young ( 29.9 percent), a longer economically active period for younger husbands (19.1 percent), and marital harmony (6.4 percent).
Why younger men and older women?
Mass media have cited the following reasons behind the growing number of couples with younger men and older women: women's tendency to get married late in life as a result of their constantly improving social status; changes in young people's perception of the roles of the sexes; and the onset of the so-called "new matriarch society." Another factor behind the phenomenon is the growing importance of good looks and well-shaped bodies. Experts say older women strive to look comparable to and even younger than their younger male partners.
Women prefer younger men these days because younger men recognize women's economic power, make them feel younger and engender a stronger sense of accomplishment by stimulating their maternal instinct, better understand even their reckless behavior, and can stay economically active longer than their older counterparts. On the other hand, men's preference for older women keeps growing because older women are less demanding and create a more comfortable relationship, are easily approachable sexually, and help men to grow up.
Celebrities lead the trend
The showbiz world has been at the forefront of reflecting such social changes through TV shows, movies, song lyrics and TV commercials, with the latter using the younger-guy-older-girl theme particularly widely these days. Since CJ's popular TV commercial featuring its brand "Enjoy the Rice Day," which showed a young man complimenting an older female college student, a myriad of TV commercials featuring older women and younger men have appeared for products ranging from mobile phones to beverages and cosmetics. Men are increasingly shedding their previous image of "cute guys" and transforming into "younger men who act like older brothers."
The theme of younger-men-older-women has become commonplace on TV shows and big-screen movies portraying love relationships between older women and younger men, and it is sometimes portrayed in a comic or heart-moving way. It has also emerged as an effective marketing tool in show business. The dance song "A Dream of Older Sister" by singer/actress Hyun Young gained enormous popularity among listeners this year for expressing a woman's desire to receive a confession of love from a younger man. "You're my woman, I say you're my woman" -- a line from singer Lee Seung-ki's touching song about a younger man's love for an older woman -- has even become a theme song of younger-man-older-woman couples.
One out of every eight couples that have tied the knot since 2005 comprises an older wife and younger husband. The era of "older brothers" becoming husbands is shifting to an era of "older sisters" becoming wives. Experts say that younger-man-older-woman couples add diversity and fun to marital life, and the number of such couples will continue to grow due to women's growing presence in society and their rising economic power.
Well, just to show that love when it comes to love there is not set of rules to follow. Just want to share this to everybody and thanks Thet for sharing this news.
My comment, well cant say much except, aja aja fighting to those who already found theirs, good luck to those who are still in the process and dream on to those who are fishing for one.
Age, the Least Important Thing in Love
The number of younger-man-older-woman couples has been on the rise recently. A recent survey shows that the number of married couples with wives older than the husbands--which stood at just 8.7 percent a decade ago--grew to 12.2 percent last year. As a matter of fact, any negative perception of couples with younger men and older women disappeared quite some time ago.
The results of a survey conducted by a matchmaking firm attest to significant changes in public perception: more than 49 percent of 1,000 polled single women nationwide said they would want to marry a man who is younger than they are, and more than 53 percent of the surveyed men liked the idea of marrying an older woman. Slightly less than half of respondents cited an age difference of two to three years as the ideal age difference between a younger husband and an older wife. As for reasons for marrying a younger man, about 40 percent of women cited their desire to maintain equality in their marital relationship, followed by the desire to stay young ( 29.9 percent), a longer economically active period for younger husbands (19.1 percent), and marital harmony (6.4 percent).
Why younger men and older women?
Mass media have cited the following reasons behind the growing number of couples with younger men and older women: women's tendency to get married late in life as a result of their constantly improving social status; changes in young people's perception of the roles of the sexes; and the onset of the so-called "new matriarch society." Another factor behind the phenomenon is the growing importance of good looks and well-shaped bodies. Experts say older women strive to look comparable to and even younger than their younger male partners.
Women prefer younger men these days because younger men recognize women's economic power, make them feel younger and engender a stronger sense of accomplishment by stimulating their maternal instinct, better understand even their reckless behavior, and can stay economically active longer than their older counterparts. On the other hand, men's preference for older women keeps growing because older women are less demanding and create a more comfortable relationship, are easily approachable sexually, and help men to grow up.
Celebrities lead the trend
The showbiz world has been at the forefront of reflecting such social changes through TV shows, movies, song lyrics and TV commercials, with the latter using the younger-guy-older-girl theme particularly widely these days. Since CJ's popular TV commercial featuring its brand "Enjoy the Rice Day," which showed a young man complimenting an older female college student, a myriad of TV commercials featuring older women and younger men have appeared for products ranging from mobile phones to beverages and cosmetics. Men are increasingly shedding their previous image of "cute guys" and transforming into "younger men who act like older brothers."
The theme of younger-men-older-women has become commonplace on TV shows and big-screen movies portraying love relationships between older women and younger men, and it is sometimes portrayed in a comic or heart-moving way. It has also emerged as an effective marketing tool in show business. The dance song "A Dream of Older Sister" by singer/actress Hyun Young gained enormous popularity among listeners this year for expressing a woman's desire to receive a confession of love from a younger man. "You're my woman, I say you're my woman" -- a line from singer Lee Seung-ki's touching song about a younger man's love for an older woman -- has even become a theme song of younger-man-older-woman couples.
One out of every eight couples that have tied the knot since 2005 comprises an older wife and younger husband. The era of "older brothers" becoming husbands is shifting to an era of "older sisters" becoming wives. Experts say that younger-man-older-woman couples add diversity and fun to marital life, and the number of such couples will continue to grow due to women's growing presence in society and their rising economic power.
posted by Flor at 6:22 AM
2 Comments:
Age is just a number right? When it's true love, doesn't matter what that number is..eheheh.
Kim ^^
10:00 AM
right again, well we can only hope this would also happen to us. "lol"
4:14 PM
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