52% Have No Interest in 'Current Partner's Ex'
32% Want to Know
More than half of young Korean couples answered that they are not interested in their partner's past dating experiences. This is interpreted as a dating culture that respects each other's privacy taking root.
On the 9th, the marriage information company 'Duo' announced that it conducted a survey on 'the current partner's previous relationships' targeting 300 unmarried men and women currently dating (150 men and 150 women). According to the survey results, more than half of the respondents, 52.3%, answered, "I do not want to know about my partner's past dating partners."
The most common reason was simply not being curious (56.1%). This was followed by answers such as "I think it would make me jealous" (17.2%) and "I think I would interfere too much with my partner" (10.8%).
Those who answered that they want to know about their partner's past dating partners accounted for 31.7%. The reasons for wanting to know about their partner's ex differed by gender. Men answered "to understand their dating style" (29.0%), while women ranked "to know the reason for the breakup" (31.3%) first.
Then, how often have they had conversations about their current partner and their own past dating stories? Among all respondents, 77.7% answered "have done so." This means that more than 7 out of 10 couples have at least once talked about each other's dating history. However, the most common response was that such conversations "have no impact on the relationship with the partner" (62.2%).
Those who answered that conversations about past relationships had a positive impact on their relationship accounted for 18.9%. They cited advantages such as "getting to know each other better" (47.7%), "being able to coordinate boundaries to be respected between partners" (29.5%), and "an opportunity to have serious conversations" (11.4%).
On the other hand, those who answered that past dating stories had a negative impact on their current relationship (18.9%) cited "I dislike that there are memories only between the two people that I do not know" (52.3%) as a disadvantage. Additionally, men mentioned "It seems like they cannot forget their ex" (22.2%), and women mentioned "I feel pressured to be better than the ex" (26.9%) as negative reasons.
The survey was conducted over four days from the 15th to the 18th of last month through the public opinion research company Macromill Embrain. The confidence level was 95% with a standard error of ±5.66 percentage points.
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