Posted on 01/22/2019 9:59:44 AM PST by C19fan
It’s the dreaded question single South Koreans find themselves fielding from relatives, friends, colleagues and even strangers on a regular basis: “When are you getting married?”.
“My parents pressure me [about marriage] whenever I visit them,” said one 34-year-old man living in Seoul. “They joke about it at first, but they get really serious by the end of our conversation.”
A 32-year-old female freelancer also based in the capital tells a similar story. “When I meet people for the first time, they ask me why I’m not married. It’s especially common for older Koreans to ask these questions,” she said, adding that the younger generation tends to find such queries rude and unnecessary.
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Ping.
Hottest chicks in the world.
This is nuts.
its no problem. they can always start importing Muslims to re=populate their country
I’m sure there are plenty of red-blooded male Americans that would love to help with this problem.
It’s a by-product of the culture that states you have to finish school before you can marry. How do you finish when you never finish?
Maybe they’re following Japan’s lead. The pressure to marry is high in Korea, but mostly just from the older generations.
Wait, what!? Oh my goodness.
Apparently we are falling behind in our duties.
Most Parents WANT Grandchildren
If nothing else, for revenge
The US fertility rate is 1.87, well below the replacement rate of 2.1. The South Korean fertility rate is 1.27.
Life expectancy at birth in the US is 80.1 years (2018 est.). For South Korea it is 82.5 years. Females in South Korea live more than three years longer than US females.
Gosh! So many women; so little time! And the biological clock is ticking...
We bring them in from all over the Third World, Muslim and non-Muslim. Immigrants and their US born children drive 80% of our population growth.
Because sex dolls?
The problem fixes itself. Only those people who have kids continue the chain .
“Most Parents WANT Grandchildren
If nothing else, for revenge”
My mom put the curse on me in my teens...”Some day you are going to have children JUST LIKE YOU”.
Radical feminism has done its job. In fact, all Leftist ideologies result in depopulation.
Most Parents WANT Grandchildren!
If nothing else, for revenge!
Amazing how that works out in the long run.
...all Leftist ideologies result in depopulation.
Loss of Hope will do that
That would be just fine IF they were coming here to become Americans!
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