The Real Reason South Koreans Aren’t Having Babies - The Atlantic
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Gender, rather than race or age or immigration status, has become the country’s sharpest social fault line.
Updated at 6:53 p.m. ET on March 24, 2023 This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic , Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. On the days she’s feeling most generous toward men—say, when she sees a handsome man on the street—Helena Lee can sometimes put her distaste aside and appreciate them as “eye candy.” That’s as far as she goes: “I do not want to know what is inside of his brain.” Most of the time, she wants nothing at all to do with men. “I try to have faith in guys and not to be like, ‘Kill
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