An increasing number of South Korean women are choosing not to marry, not to have children, and not even to have relationships with men. With the lowest fertility rate in the world, the country’s population will start shrinking unless something changes.
“I have no plans to have children, ever,” says 24-year-old Jang Yun-hwa, as we chat in a hipsterish cafe in the middle of Seoul.
“I don’t want the physical pain of childbirth. And it would be detrimental to my career.”
Like many young adults in South Korea’s hyper-competitive job market, Yun-hwa, a web comic artist, has worked hard to get where she is and isn’t ready to let all that hard graft go to waste.
“Rather than be part of a family, I’d like to be independent and live alone and achieve my dreams,” she says.
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When I put it to her that if she and her contemporaries don’t have children her country’s culture will die, she tells me that it’s time for the male-dominated culture to go.
“Must die,” she says, breaking into English. “Must die!”
colour(s) I’m currently wearing: literally black and yellow
last band t-shirt I bought: I don’t think I ever bought official band shirts……… I’m trying to think uuuuh, I do buy merch shirts just not for bands cause the bands I like make ugly ones
last band I saw live: uuuuuhhhh Nothing But Thieves last December? Right? That was the last one? NO or was it? Yes, nO! Susanne Sundfor in March! I know how to remember things!
last song I listened to: Right Here Right Now by San Holo and Taska Black
lipstick or chapstick? Don’t know what the difference is and I don’t even want to.
last movie I watched: Uh…. uuuuhhhhhh………. Annihilation? NO! The Greatest Showman, I watched it last weekend.
last three tv shows I watched: Christsakes I don’t know memories. Mozart in the Jungle…. uuuuuhhhh…. uuuuUUUMMMM Devilman Crybaby but it’s fucking awful I haven’t even finished. And The Good Place? Maybe? Like this is over the course of like four months ok.
last three characters I identified with: No fictional character is as awful as I am so… step up your game, writers.
book I’m currently reading: I don’t read o/
Someone pls tell me that it’s okay if a novel isn’t 100k.
Pass Through Fire 