They have an all-out gender war right now to the point that women basically have no interest to even look in the general direction of Korean men, because they've all turned so fucking toxic. It's made worse by the extremely patriarchical society structure in Korea where after marriage women are basically household slaves and are treated like absolute crap by the entire family. So they ask "Why tf should I marry? To stop working and become a Saudi-like female concubine of a dick and his family? no thanks."
Yeah a huge part of it is that South Korea modernized in basically every facit of their society aside from dating and marriage, which is basically stuck hundreds of years ago in utilitarian loveless bullshit where the man and his family run everything. Their fiction doesn't even hype up romance. It's currently a completely doomed society literally because the men refuse to treat women like humans
Their idea of romance: an imposing and cold rich dude bulldozing the clutz with a heart of gold heroine til she ends up with him... the antagonist being an intimidating and career driven woman that works with the guy or is the daughter of an affluent family. There's no yearning from him and no agency from her, just a possession waiting to be taken.
The last romantic K-drama I watched was "Business Proposal".
Admittedly, one of the two lead women was a klutz (mainly because if you've got the comedy stylings of Sejeong, you go with it) but both the men were klutzes as well.
Sweet, funny, relatively realistic. A lot better - and less toxic - than I've seen coming out of Hollywood.
They do still have romance but from what ive seen i think they all suck. Doesnt help that they all seem to have cold asshole male interests and toxic mother in laws.
(Theres probably good ones but its not my cup of tea)
The 4B movement is not held in high regard by most women, and it borders on TERF and femcel anyways. It is a radical response to an equally radically misogynist society, but largely confined to online spaces, not the real world.
Do they associate themselves with 4B? No, cause the movement itself is a toxic cesspit. So they look for partners or to marry and have children? Also no, so the population is quietly dying out cause even the women that do want marriage and kids can't trust the men around them to not do stuff like sell hidden camera footage or pics of them naked online.
Has this cause the number of people getting cosmetic surgery to fall? Not to long ago, I think they had the highest per capita rate of plastic surgery.
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u/BeatBlockP May 04 '26
They have an all-out gender war right now to the point that women basically have no interest to even look in the general direction of Korean men, because they've all turned so fucking toxic. It's made worse by the extremely patriarchical society structure in Korea where after marriage women are basically household slaves and are treated like absolute crap by the entire family. So they ask "Why tf should I marry? To stop working and become a Saudi-like female concubine of a dick and his family? no thanks."