Why more older Koreans are ending marriages they once felt compelled to endure

“My client in her 80s told me that she had experienced her husband's delusional jealousy since she was young, but she put up with it because of their children,” Kwak Yoon-seo, a divorce attorney from law firm JR LLC, told the Korea JoongAng Daily. “She said that as her husband got older, it got worse — she couldn't even go out, and whenever she made a phone call, he would grill her about who she had been talking to. It kept happening repeatedly, and she reached her limit.”