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nekandro@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

Single men in Korea outnumber single women by 19.6 percent: Report

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Single men in Korea outnumber single women by 19.6 percent: Report

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nekandro@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago
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There are nearly 20 percent more single men than single women in Korea, according to a Monday report from the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA), matching a historical preference for sons.
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    The increase of male births can be linked to a historical preference for sons, a decline in birth rates driven by gender selection preferences and advancements in technology, such as ultrasound, that facilitate gender selection, according to the report.    The report also emphasized that the prolonged period of a skewed sex ratio at birth since the 1970s has had a significant impact on marriage rates. Regions with high marriage rate imbalances are characterized by particularly skewed sex ratios at birth during the 1980s and 1990s.

    So basically a lot of people saw a vagina in the ultrasound and decided quit and restart the level.

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      Isn’t that what people said about China?

      • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world
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        This isn’t the only country that’s an example of this.

        • CyberMonkey404@lemmy.ml
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          Fair enough

    • pyre@lemmy.world
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      and now they’ve fucked over their preferred sons because in doing so they left them maidenless.

    • moistclump@lemmy.world
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      Why is there a preference for sons? Is it because they would traditionally get better jobs and take care of their parents or…?

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    Interesting in that, flipping it around, there doesn’t appear to be another country with as large a disparity.

    Armenia is #1 with 55% women:

    https://www.worldatlas.com/society/10-countries-where-women-far-outnumber-men.html

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      Improving relations between China and Russia/Eastern Europe is the solution to both countries’ demographics problems.

      • CyberMonkey404@lemmy.ml
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        Please explain how

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Im4YAMWK74

    Relevant follow-up (videos explore Korean gender politics and hierarchical society).

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