An increasing number of South Korean women are choosing not to marry, not to have children, and not even to have relationships with men. With the lowest fertility rate in the world, the country’s population will start shrinking unless something changes.
“I have no plans to have children, ever,” says 24-year-old Jang Yun-hwa, as we chat in a hipsterish cafe in the middle of Seoul.
“I don’t want the physical pain of childbirth. And it would be detrimental to my career.”
Like many young adults in South Korea’s hyper-competitive job market, Yun-hwa, a web comic artist, has worked hard to get where she is and isn’t ready to let all that hard graft go to waste.
“Rather than be part of a family, I’d like to be independent and live alone and achieve my dreams,” she says.
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When I put it to her that if she and her contemporaries don’t have children her country’s culture will die, she tells me that it’s time for the male-dominated culture to go.
“Must die,” she says, breaking into English. “Must die!”
Must die.
Must die!
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Sisters are doing it for themselves!
Men created all these sexist laws now there shocked when woman are saying fuck no to the whole husband and kids
and it’s like overall all these fucked up antiquated patriarchal-agriculturally based social restrictions that brought ups to capitalism are SO fucking miserable and anti-human that newer generations don’t want to uphold them.
Every country dealing with this is like mad that young people don’t feel like selling their futures to fucked up old rules just for the sake of continuing ‘the norm’ and governments are blaming them as if they’re entitled to peoples’ futures and wombs.
All of this as well but I also feel that a lot of heterosexual woman all over are sick of men not putting in effort in the marriage. Majority of woman have seen their parents in bad marriages. Men overall still do not contribute as much to household cleaning and child development as much as woman do. Majority of woman don’t see the point of getting married if there going to end up doing all the work like the previous generations of woman.
Honestly I think it comes down to that. With any situation you weight the pro and cons. The cons of getting married out weigh the pros right now. Most women hold a full time job and still do all the child rearing. What’s the point in having a partner with no help. I don’t wanna raise another child that can’t even be bothered to wash his own clothes or help meal plan.
I use to hate working at a grocery store, cause men came in all the time “haha I don’t normally do the shopping or cooking so I hope I’m doing this right haha”. Dumbass you wanna eat but can’t be bothered to help at all. I rather be single and adopt before I get with a man child.
A lot of successful woman are now having kids w/o the husband because of this exact problem. There’s no point to a man in the house if he’s not doing shit. I literally hate how proud some men are of not knowing how to cook and clean that shit ain’t cute, and men refuse to change and adapt to this new era they would rather just blame woman.
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