Mentions (25)
"The crash in South Korea yesterday broke my heart to read about, but reading after about the landing failure in Oslo just brought pure rage."
"Birth rate at 0.75 babies per woman. Lowest in the world, possibly in history"
"why is no one interested in anything? why are we all business majors? what are we trying to make all this money for? to live in a slightly larger apartment? to perhaps own it? when we all know the only things worth doing here are smoking and drinking?"
"Has US bases but no one cares about their culture unlike Japan or South Korea."
"You can understand the problem by looking at South Korea with its .75 fertility rate. A fertility rate of 2.1 is necessary just to keep the status quo population intact. That's still not high enough to maintain a pension system (you will never retire), but forget that for a moment. What .75 means is"
"I vaguely remember hearing something about women in South Korea shaving their heads as an act of rebellion against their looks-centred culture? We need something like that here."
"Absolutely crazy, real life children of men situation. I read it's bad in South Korea also but Japan is a country of 125m people and had like 700,000 babies last year!"
"Bigger than Italy and almost as big as Canada's and South Korea defense budget"
"It's amazing how quickly the developed world went from the invention of the birth control pill to a birthrate that is below replacement for the first time in human history. And nobody can figure out how to fix it. We have the highest incomes ever. Governments are throwing thousands of dollars at you"
"Similarly, South Korea has the 4B movement, which appears to be a more advanced version of the balkanisation of the sexes occurring right now in the west."
"Her parents are South Korean artists/filmmakers who move the family to the Canada when she is 13, and the whole movie is about some lifelong relationship with her teenage crush back in Korea yadda yadda etc"
"Extremely low birth rates, loneliness, extremely superficial and materialistic population, horrific incel culture, extreme gender ideology gap, etc."
"The trend is part of a larger push against the country's patriarchal society that has seen record numbers of women take to the streets to demand greater equality and fight against issues such as illegal filming (molka) and sexual assault."
"I have been dating a fellow ex pat for the last couple weeks, she is a South Korean 28 y/o who is extremely kind and empathetic and I find very easy to be around."
"Saying South Korea is worse than North Korea because it *has* poverty? Stupid as shit. I'm not saying it's a paradise, in fact it's probably worse than most other developed nations. But compared to a faux-Agrarian dictatorship where you basically live in poverty unless you happen to be in Pyongyang"
"However, after matching with a quite attractive South Korean woman on a dating app I broke this rule. She is 28, speaks English flawlessly and I connected with her instantly. Maybe South Koreans and Americans are more similar but I feel as though our interactions are much easier."
"Much of the appeal of Japan and SK is because of its exoticism and how "alien" its fans see it compared to the west. As Japanese food, media, fashion etc became more well known and to some extent understood by western audiences, they moved onto SK as the new big thing to obsess over"
"liberals and the left are hypocritical in condemning ethnonationalism in places like the UK, France, israel and Germany, but just about never do so in regards to East Asian countries like South Korea or Japan. Ideology of the advocates aside, why is this? I hang out in a lot of leftist circles, yet "
"'nothing ever happens'.... 'the most boring thing will always happen' All this is just cope, we live in a regarded world, where random bullshit happens all the time, and I wouldn't have it any other way."
"Many try to downplay it as a rise in spite of their unorthodox practices, but looking at their equally populous neighbor India or hellhole South Korea that in theory have been doing most things right makes one question that."
"It's inspired other countries like South Korea to step up their game. Others like Japan and Phillipines are producing even more and am happy to see that."
"29-M-Peru. Preface: I had to include an image in order to post. My girlfriend, a 28 y/o South Korean woman, has a very irritating but paradoxically endearing way of having fun with me."
"If there were more of these couples, the South Korean birth rate would probably be less dire."
"rs princess gets her spy Sattelite before South Korea. Btfo."
"Plane crash kills 179 people in South Korea"