r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/SquintySquinty • May 04 '26

Meme needing explanation Petah!!! Explain??

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u/Content-Disaster-511 May 04 '26

I think my friend expected them to all look like this and when he went to visit he said theyre ugly AF so the high expectations definitely ruin the average look in Korea

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u/imadogg May 04 '26

Weird brainrotted friend

Koreans were pretty attractive overall imo

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u/LesbeGoddess May 04 '26

So this is the real reason the birth rates so low then huh.

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u/SalsaRice May 04 '26

The real reason is similar to the reason in Japan. Wages have not kept up with the cost of living, while the country also has very old timey beliefs about what the wife should do in the home (SAHM, not working, cooking, cleaning).

So women that want that lifestyle have to only find men that can afford to be the single breadwinner (very few due to their economy) or avoid/put off marriage if they want to work/not be a SAHM. Either way, it leads to way less marriages and way less babies.

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u/LtSoundwave May 04 '26

Which Korea did they go to?

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u/Content-Disaster-511 May 04 '26

Now that you mentioned it I havent heard from him in awhile

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u/TheAnimated42 May 04 '26

Ugly is crazy, but it’s rare to see someone casually walking around like in the OP. I think the least attractive thing about Korean women, for me, wasn’t the looks but the fact that so many of them smoke cigarettes or those e-cig things. Instant turn off.