Genuinely remarkable article. Difficult to imagine what the future of Korea will look like.
https://twitter.com/BradWilcoxIFS/status/1493965876743360520
One thing worth mentioning here is that this is now the 3rd or 4th article to cover this political turn to label young Korean men misogynistic despite no actual evidence of misogyny being presented. Maybe they are! This article doesn't show that though.
Like when you're saying it's rampant misogyny among young Korean men one would expect to have survey results showing that, idk, those men hate women or something.
Instead we just get: their sexist misogynists, no evidence needed.
Maybe it's extremely obvious in the intra-Korean discourse that this is the case.... but for those of us on the outside, it's difficult to know exactly what's going on here.
Maybe it's extremely obvious in the intra-Korean discourse that this is the case.... but for those of us on the outside, it's difficult to know exactly what's going on here.
one could, if one were so inclined, see how korean men under 30 compare in their responses to internationally standard survey questions such as "Are men better political leaders than women?" 
in such an endeavor, one would find that young Korean men are indeed somewhat more sexist than their income group peers.
also, so are young Korean women.
the gap between them is not especially unusual.
also, so are young Korean women.
the gap between them is not especially unusual.
In general, I feel like "group X in Y country is very weird in this specific and possibly inflammatory way!" takes should usually at least glance at comparative survey data to figure out a little context.
also from the same survey here's share of men under 40 who say they are willing to fight for their country
spain and italy are just like "lol, take us over please, someone, anyone"
spain and italy are just like "lol, take us over please, someone, anyone"
Japan too. Japanese dudes EXTREMELY not interested in fighting for Japan. Canadians and Kiwis kinda ambivalent about if theyr country is worth it or not.
Koreans, Taiwanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Indonesian dudes are all kinda spoiling for a fight though; they all report high willingness to fight for the nation.
the big Japan vs. rest of Asia split is very interesting.
the big Japan vs. rest of Asia split is very interesting.
you may wonder what country has the MOST willingness to fight
as soon as i say the answer you'll be like
"lol, of course"
as soon as i say the answer you'll be like
"lol, of course"
georgia
it's georgia
because of course it is
it's georgia
because of course it is
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