South Korea's gender imbalance is bad news for men. Outnumbering women, many face bleak marriage prospects
Published Date: 1/9/2024
Source: phys.org
South Korea's bachelor time bomb is about to really go off. Following a historic 30-year-long imbalance in the male-to-female sex ratio at birth, young men far outnumber young women in the country. As a result, some 700,000 to 800,000 "extra" South Korean boys born since the mid-1980s may not be able to find South Korean girls to marry.