In the days of "China will collapse in X days", "America will go bankrupt in X months" I present to you South Korea - a dead nation.
The future is female in South Korea and it looks really grim.
South Korea has 0.9 fertility rate and is projected to become extinct circa 2700's.
Why? Maybe because it is one of the most feminist asian countries.
Feminism kills the elderly
I wonder how many youngsters saw their grandpa struggling to survive.According to the Statistics Korea website, the divorce rate here was 4.4 per 1,000 people in 2017. (...) "Twilight divorces" are increasing; couples with 20 to 30 years of marriage are now calling it quits. (...) divorced spouses can claim part of their ex's pension.
How many of them didn't get married because the endgame of marriage in SK is dying alone.
An evergrowing egg cementary
Before 1990, the divorce rates were some of the lowest in the world (Rowan, 2020, April 14). (...)
The divorce rate has since increased by 400% from 1990 to 2017 and social views are changing.
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In the past, most people had traditional patriarchic values which contributed to keeping the divorce rate low. This increase has been especially true for older Koreans. In recent years, women are becoming more educated, and there are now more employment opportunities for women (Rowan, 2020, April 14).
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Additionally, there has also been a delay in the age of marriage and having children. The lives of women have changed because many are also wage earners and are prioritizing responsibilities and choices in their lives.
Everything comes at a price. Responsibility is the price of freedom. Solitude is the price of independence.
Why do modern families fail? Because there is no such a thing as modern or traditional.
You either have a family or you don't.
Future is female
Today is the opposite day. Doctors kill, women abort, men loose more than they gain.About 340,000 abortions are performed annually in South Korea while 440,000 childbirths are reported.
Instead of marriage you have divorce, a governament instead of the husband.
Today betrayal is worshipped and fidelity frowned upon.
Today is the opposite day and the future is female.
Annotations:
- Stats quoted vary vastly from source to source. Newer data shows vastly lower numbers than quoted. In the stats from 2020 those values are halved, so SK statwise "just behind" USA.
- On global divorce/marriage/abortion maps SK is often greyed out. It's very difficult to find any raw or specific data.
- According to more recent estimates by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, the number of abortions have declined to 50k a year. Yeah. I don't believe 10x decrease over 10 years. Methinks someone is cooking the books. It'd be also in line with "the loss of face" culture (it's common in asian countries).
- Trivia: dating classes, mindset in dating, fertility crisis, disenfranchisement of men, suicides