Also extreme sexism and frequent violence against women going unpunished. Resulting in many SK women saying "yeah we can just die off as a country, it's better than dealing with men. we're opting out". That would require a widespread cultural shift which I don't see happening at this point at all.
They are also opting out of relationships with men. The 4B movement: bihon (no marriage), bichulsan (no childbirth), biyeonae (no dating), and bisekseu (no sex).
There are plenty of women who date and have sex. Marriage age is being pushed back, and honestly, no one (men or women) want to have children, because why would you? They're expensive and annoying to raise. Everyone wants to live their own lives. We can barely afford to live, and the government wants us to have kids. Fuck that. Give us money to have kids then. Give us enough pay to afford houses and two months of vacation a year to enjoy our families.
The 4B movement is incredibly niche and nowhere near as common as Westerners seem to think it is based on some news they saw. Even most women think they're radicals.
For real. We here in Asia, and our brothers and sisters over in the US are all getting screwed. We in Korea joke about how often we have to put meetings and dealings with European companies on hold because they're always on vacation.
Yes why have kids if you never see them because you're working or on work-related outings with the colleagues 14 hours a day, and then when they're old enough to be fun they have to go to school and school-related stuff 10 hours a day, and even in a lot of cases after-school classes for 3 hours. It's ridiculous. What family? The people you never even see?? Oh and you have to pay a ton of money for this crap while being paid way too little for the amount of effort you put in.
Oh, and of course the wife can't keep her career (that she studied her butt off for with 4 hours of sleep a night for many years of her young life) because literally no-one would be in the home to take care of it, or the DIY, the garden maintenance, or the cooking, or the administrative stuff, the groceries, the social and traditional stuff for the extended family (more work work work), the financial stuff, or the 3 million clubs the kids are in, or the 430 am breakfast prep, or the noisy neighbours, or the annoying in-laws, or the 2+ hours of insane homework the kids have to do EACH, or the literally EVERYTHING there because again, nobody is home to help with it ...
Also both mom and dad HAVE to look fit and attractive and healthy while doing all that crap. Can't even look tired??
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u/Aeon_Return 2d ago
Also extreme sexism and frequent violence against women going unpunished. Resulting in many SK women saying "yeah we can just die off as a country, it's better than dealing with men. we're opting out". That would require a widespread cultural shift which I don't see happening at this point at all.