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

koreajoongangdaily.joins.com Single men in Korea outnumber single women by 19.6 percent: Report

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.
- It's now even before that
  
  I know of two couples that went to get IVF in China/Korea. Both got to choose the gender of the baby - aka they just test and insert the one that ticks the box.
  
  Both couples chose boys.
- Isn't that what people said about China?
  
  It's happening in China, South Korea, Vietnam. Probably you can find more examples.
  
  This isn’t the only country that’s an example of this.
- and now they've fucked over their preferred sons because in doing so they left them maidenless.
- Why is there a preference for sons? Is it because they would traditionally get better jobs and take care of their parents or…?
  
  Carry on the name?
  
  I was told in Asian society the women marries into the males family and basically forsakes her original one. So patents need males to take care of them when they are okd. I dk if it's BS.
I assume this increase in men being single has led to increases in male loneliness and subsequently the massive chauvinist backlash and rightward shift that's been happening in S. Korea.
- The chauvinism was already there, that's why they have more male children.
Since the 1970s, the sex ratio at birth in Korea has exceeded the natural ratio — 104 to 107 boys for every 100 girls.

The short explanation
- It would need to be at least 120:100 right
  
  I don't understand you...
  
  If 80 out of 100 women are in a relationship, we can assume that 80 out of 104 men are in a relationship.
  
  Therefore, 20 women are single, and 24 men are single. In this example, there are 20% more single men than single women.
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
- Improving relations between China and Russia/Eastern Europe is the solution to both countries' demographics problems.
  
  Please explain how
And this is only lvl 1 Patriarchy. At lvl 2 a man may marry as many wives as he wants, and the young single men are just war fodder.
- What's level 3?
  
  sex cults.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Im4YAMWK74

Relevant follow-up (videos explore Korean gender politics and hierarchical society).
so many bowl cuts

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