○강연 내용:Although falling marriage rates and rising divorce rates, along with the increase of population living alone, are well documented trends in South Korea, less known is divergence in those family behaviors between the more and less educated. Tracing family changes differently for those at higher and lower ends of educational hierarchy, this study highlights growing educational differentials in family behaviors over the last three decades in contemporary Korea. It is more challenging for those without a college degree to form a family through marriage, compared to their college-educated counterparts. The risk of family dissolution through divorce has increased more substantially at the lower end of educational hierarchy than at the higher. The rise of living alone is more visible among the less educated than the more educated. In short, it is increasingly difficult for those at the lower end of educational hierarchy to form and maintain a family, making the Korean family as a ‘luxury good.’