You people will just say anything you want about Korea, North or South.
Before I scuttle off, though, please ask yourself why articles like these that talk about birthrate or lack of 1st graders or whatever in South Korea almost never discusses the fact that recently, the far-right capitalist regime has made it even harder for couples to afford kids, or historically, the fact that the decline in birthrate being sharp coincides with far-right regime at enforcing lower birthrate + “democratic” regime’s neoliberalization in social welfare policies after the 1997 Asian financial collapse. It’s almost as if critique of capitalism and its tangible harmful impact on human lives is impossible to conceive of (no pun intended) for these people. Women aren’t “withholding reproductive labor,” yankee reading this from their shitty suburban dwelling. People can’t afford to see a gynecologist because the far-right regime modeled its social welfare policies after the USA’s social welfare policies.
I thought I was done with this post (and this addition probably won’t spread), but I wanted add one more thing that bothered me about the Other Post.
This isn’t even the age that kids start school in South Korea. If Korean cis women really did do this since 2019, the kids that enter first grade would be….
2-3 years under the age that they normally enter kindergarten (kids do not just pop out of the woman right after sex! You’d have to account for the 8-9 months of pregnancy!). So now, we have to look at what happened 8-9 years ago. So what did happen 8-9 years ago?
THAT’S RIGHT! IT’S ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT LABOR! Park Geun-hye’s awful far-right regime has made it impossible for Korean youth to even survive, let alone think about kids 9 years ago! Did you know that if you’re working 60+ hrs a week because you lost your benefits in your “contractor” job, you tend to stop having sex (or any other leisure life)? It’s always been about capitalism and its impact on human lives! Pretenidng otherwise is literally letting the capitalists hijack the narrative about their failure with flashy “causes” that do not line up! Reject any “analysis” that ignore the actual, tangible material causes to the phenomena in favor of sensationalism! It’s like a key dangling in front of your face!
