This Bloomberg article about falling female support for Korea's progressive government, female conscription, and workplace inequality is one of the most interesting representations of the Korean gender-and-population discourse I've read recently. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
The story is literally: fertility rates are so low that military recruitment is collapsing, creating a security problem even as female support for the progressive party is collapsing, so the progressive leader kills two birds with one stone: gender equality for conscription!
The result is the minister for gender issues complains that Korean women should not be subjected to the same *disadvantages* as men (i.e. conscription), that this isn't a good kind of equality.
The article then waffles back and forth by paragraph between "Conscription gives men a leg up in employment!" and "Conscription is crappy work that demeans men!"
It turns out that "Your neighbors want to murder you and subject you to dictatorship" throws a lot of the politics of gender and population into extremely awkward places.
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