> 54: Koreans are not okay:
https://x.com/airkatakana/status/1847964003416543478 ("83% of young korean women think of south korea as “hell” and 80% of them want to leave korea. if your mental model of south korea does not match this, it’s your mental model and not the data that is wrong")
Extrapolate to forward looking fertility rate. South Korea total fertility rate as of 2023 is 0.72.
[1] For just a year, and on the US government payroll, so obviously a very different experience from growing up there as a Korean.
I think S. Korea has a long way to go to meet up with the modern day. It can be very frustrating to see women's rights move forward globally, however glacially, and feel like you don't have those things.
> South Korea has the fourth highest suicide rate in the world and the highest among OECD countries. The elderly in South Korea are at the highest risk of suicide, but deaths from teen suicide have been rising since 2010. In 2022 suicide caused more than half of all deaths among South Koreans in their twenties. It is the leading cause of death for those between the age of 10 and 39, in line with most OECD countries.
I still think this survey doesn't make sense, or at least something is lost in transactional.
https://www.womenlink.or.kr/minwoo_actions/20828
In the past nine years, at least 824 women had been killed and 602 more put at risk of death due to intimate partner violence (IPV)
https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/1...
A 2021 study further found that one in three Korean women have experienced domestic violence, with intimate partners responsible for 46 percent of these cases.