By Choi Sung-jin
What questions must you not ask during a blind date? The answer is “annual income” for men and the “reason for breaking up with your ex” for women.
In a survey of 14,301 people by Woljeum, an app developer for blind dates, 46.9 percent of respondents said they felt displeasure during a blind date when the other side asked about their annual salary.
They also had unpleasant feelings when their dates asked why they broke up with their exes (24.8 percent), what school they graduated (11.8 percent), how many lovers they had (9.1 percent), whether they lived apart from their families (4.6 percent) and family background (2.5 percent).
Men and women showed differences in their most unpleasant questions.
While 49.7 percent of male respondents cited the question about annual income most displeasing, the largest share of females (32.9 percent) felt it most uncomfortable when asked why they left their previous lovers.
Other questions that made men ill-humored were reasons for breakup (23.8 percent), schools they attended (12.6 percent), number of previous lovers (8.6 percent), cooking their own meals (3.5 percent) and family relationship (2.6 percent).
The comparable degrees of displeasure among women were salaries (26.6 percent), boarding (13 percent), date experiences (12.8 percent), schools (12.6 percent) and family ties (2.1 percent).
“Men react most sensitively to questions about their ‘ability’ while women do so to queries about their ‘relationship,’” the app developer said. “When people meet their dates through apps, they need to consider and care for their partners to prevent problems resulting from their lack of information about the other side.”