Only Luxury Hotels in Demand as Wedding Halls Go out of Business

More and more wedding event halls have actually failed as Koreans are significantly hesitant to get married, and now just the leading places in high-end hotels are doing a vibrant trade.

One 32- year-old workplace employee has a bumpy ride discovering a location for the event when the wedding event hall in Pyeongtaek south of Seoul he had actually scheduled all of a sudden shut down.

” I have simply 2 months prior to my wedding event and it’s truly difficult finding another location,” he stated. “Getting a refund of my deposit was likewise challenging.”

The variety of wedding event halls in Korea fell 26.3 percent from 1,030 in 2018 to simply 759 late in 2015. In Seoul alone it plunged 22.5 percent from 192 to143 Over the very same duration the variety of marital relationships likewise fell 33.4 percent to 171,814

” Around a lots wedding event halls in Seoul shut down this year, and unless they’re in Gangnam the staying ones just host a couple of wedding events per weekend,” a wedding event coordinator stated.

But the ballrooms of Seoul’s high-end hotels are loaded. At the Westin Chosun, around90 percent of offered slots for the year have actually currently been filled.

A staffer at the hotel stated, “All Saturday slots have actually been filled and the only ones left are a couple of Sunday nights.”

At the hotel Shilla and Lotte hotel in Seoul practically all weekend slots this year are reserved.