Tag: Featured News

  • Half of Flemish Polled Want An Exciting First Date

    Global Love Report – April 27, 2022 English translation by Pamela Stephanie It’s spring and that means that the sun comes out more and more often. Ideal weather to plan a nice date and that’s possible again “in real life” due to the lax corona measures. However a new study by the dating app Meetic…

  • ZWEI includes Voice Matching in New System

    Global Love Report – April 20, 2022 English summary by Pamela Stephanie Matchmaking agency ZWEI, part of IBJ’s group of matchmaking agencies, announced that its new system has caused the number of matches to increase by 153%. They’re aiming to achieve an higher marriage rate. And to do so, they’re continuing to improve their existing…

  • Record Matchmaking Numbers in March for IBJ

    Global Love Report – April 13, 2022 English summary by Pamela Stephanie IBJ reportedly had record matchmaking numbers back in March 2022. Their monthly figures exceeded 50,000, which is its highest numbers ever. In Quarters 1 to 4 of 2021, IBJ’s monthly numbers peaked at just under 48,000. January saw their monthly numbers increase to…

  • Gender Imbalance at Government Matchmaking Service

    Global Love Report – April 6, 2022 Translation and summary by Pamela Stephanie The number of registrants for the second stage of the matchmaking service that was established by the Ministry of Religion of Solo has increased and is more diverse than the during the first phase of data collection. Even widowers and lecturers don’t…

  • Niche Agencies Seeing Surge due to War in Ukraine

    Global Love Report – March 30, 2022 A summary article by Pamela Stephanie Niche agencies in France are facing a surge in single Frenchmen requesting to be matched with Ukrainian women since the war in Ukraine began. One matchmaker, owner of the Marseille-based “Au cœur de l’Est”, Kateryna Baratova, explained that men have been coming…

  • Korea: Marriage in Decline but Agencies are Thriving

    Global Love Report – March 30, 2022 A summary article by Pamela Stephanie The number of marriages in Korea in 2021 has gone down by 9.8%, according to the National Statistical Office, to 193,000. This is the lowest total marriages in a year that it has recorded. This is due in part by shifting values…

  • Celebrity Wedding Planner Joins Noblesse

    Global Love Report – March 23, 2022 A summary article by Pamela Stephanie Noblesse, a South Korean matchmaking agency, has recruited celebrity wedding planner, Jang Eun-kyung as a VIP-only matchmaker. Jang Eun-kyung is a famous wedding planner with more than 20 years of experience. She has been active in the wedding industry since its early…

  • The Matchmaker who arranged 2500 marriages

    Global Love Report – March 23, 2022 A translated article by Pamela Stephanie In the early 90s, Romanian society changed dramatically. After 44 years of communism, two decades of which were under the brutal dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu, protest broke out across the country that brought down the regime in only one week. The revolution…

  • Exclusive Matchmaking in Belgium

    Global Love Report – March 16, 2022 Original Article Published by Together Mag (Image source: Pexels, Trung Nguyen)

  • Japanese Agency Offering Free Photoshoot

    Global Love Report – March 9, 2022 A review article by Pamela Stephanie Tokyo Bay Sorte matchmaking agency is partnering with foriio. “foriio” is a company which provides content creators a way to showcase their content. With this partnership, members of foriio will be able to create a free professional profile picture with the matchmaking…