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[Real Reality]

1. Do you or someone you know have a lifestyle addiction?
2. Do housewives have a lot of free time to develop healthy and unhealthy addictions?
3. Do housewives have a lot of extra money to spend on lifestyle addictions?

Lifestyle Addictions on the Rise
Plastic Surgery Addiction
The number of housewives undergoing plastic surgery has risen significantly over the last couple of years.... A plastic surgeon says, "Our core customer base are housewives in their mid or late 30s who are economically comfortable and start to become dissatisfied with their looks now their 20s are over."

Fitness Addiction
Some women feel happy only when they work out. The manager of a fitness center in Bundang says some four or five housewives come every day just as if they were going to the office and work out for three or four hours at a time.
Chosun Ilbo (September 4, 2006)
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200609/200609040001.html

Most Women Quit Work to Get Married
Chosun Ilbo (March 22, 2006)
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200603/200603220029.html

54% of Working Moms to Quit Jobs
By Yoon Ja-young, Korea Times (August 1, 2006)
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200608/kt2006080117131510220.htm

More Women Hired, But Fewer Retained
Donga.com (August 2, 2006)
http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?biid=2006080297868

Wives Found Far Richer than their Spouses
A survey indicated married Korean women manage an average of W14.4 million (about US$12,000) of "secret funds" without the knowledge of their spouses, who in turn had only W3.4 million (about US$3,000) kept aside -- or a mere quarter of how much their wives have tucked aside.
Chosun Ilbo (March 21, 2001)
http://www.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200102/200102150006.html

More Women Keep Secret Stash of Money
Chosun Ilbo (June 6,2005)
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200506/200506060001.html

Korea's Birthrate Plunges to New Record Low
The country's birthrate has dropped to the point where the average Korean woman is expected to have only one child throughout her life.
Chosun Ilbo (May 8, 2006)
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200605/200605080023.html

1 in 3 married women rejects motherhood
By Jin Hyun-joo, Korea Herald (March 23, 2006)
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2006/03/23/200603230035.asp

Kid Crunch
Millions of Koreans have decided that raising children is too tough
by Choi Jie-ho, Park Soo-mee, JoongAng Daily (September 29, 2003)
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200309/29/200309290310510309900091009101.html