South Korea’s World-Lowest Fertility Rate Set to Fall Further
time.com
Low fertility threatens to undermine South Korea’s economic future by shrinking its workforce and slowing consumption.

The latest forecast by Statistics Korea puts the population in 2072 at 36.2 million, a 30% decline from the current 51.7 million, even though the fertility rate may recover a bit to 0.68 in 2026. The population is expected to fall every year starting in 2025.

        • Cowbee@lemm.eeEnglish
          28·
          11 months ago

          There’s also a massive and rising anti-feminist incel subculture, which the current President Yoon took power from. Women in South Korea don’t trust men in South Korea as much.

          Insane work culture, huge wealth inequality, and rising anti-women movements all hurt birth rates.

            • Cowbee@lemm.eeEnglish
              26·
              11 months ago

              Unsurprisingly, a rising feminist subculture among women. Because Korea in general has been historically misogynistic, exposure to more feminist media and culture as well as societal progression has led to rises in feminism among women. As a response, men have felt threatened, and claim feminists are “going too far,” and call feminists “femi.”

              An example of recent incel “controversy” is when an idol character in a video game had a frame where her index finger and thumb appeared like this: 🤏 and incels took that to be offensive to Korean Penis size, and had the man who animated that fired from Nexien. I wish I was joking.

              • Rodeo@lemmy.caEnglish
                112·
                11 months ago

                So the exact same reaction that men the world over have when women start demanding equal rights.

                Because Korea in general has been historically misogynistic

                There’s nothing particularly Korean about this. Basically every culture is historically misogynistic, the exceptions are few and far between and are generally romanticized based on limited information.

                The exact same reactions took place in America 100 years ago during women’s suffrage, and are taking place again now with the abortion debacle.

                • Cowbee@lemm.eeEnglish
                  10·
                  11 months ago

                  That’s why I said “unsurprisingly,” and considering South Korea has developed far more recently, it’s also important to recognize that their social progress is behind much of other developed countries. I wasn’t implying that Korea has anything specific about them that made them especially misogynistic, rather, it’s pointing at their current conditions and trajectories.

              • chitak166@lemmy.worldEnglish
                62·
                11 months ago

                Lol, hilarious.

                I mean yeah, it’s sad this is going on. But that example is just too funny.

                Hopefully these men can get over themselves and start treating women with the respect they deserve.

                • Cowbee@lemm.eeEnglish
                  6·
                  11 months ago

                  Oh, absolutely, I agree. The only thing that truly brings solace is that reactionary movements get louder when progressive movements grow stronger.