Even if all single men and women between ages 20 and 49 were paired, one out of ten single men would still be unable to find a marriage partner. This is because the male population is larger than men due to the cultural preference for sons over daughters from the 1970s to the mid-2000s. This phenomenon is more pronounced in rural areas than in Seoul.
According to the June edition of ‘Issue & Focus’ published by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs on the 17th, the number of ‘unmatched singles’ in Korea stood at 1,226,823 as of 2020. This term refers to the remaining single men after hypothetically matching all unmarried men and women aged 20-49. The imbalance in male-to-female ratio which has persisted for decades resulted in more unmarried men than unmarried women. In 1995, the number of ‘unmatched single’ men was 102,887, which was only 0.9% of the total number of unmarried men aged 20 to 49 (1,140,708). However, by 2020, the number of ‘unmatched single’ men surpassed 1.2 million, while the total number of unmarried men decreased to 1,093,274, increasing the ratio of ‘unmatched single’ men to 11.2%.
In reality, both the number of unmarried men of childbearing age and the unmarried rate are higher than for women. In 2020, the gender ratio among those born in 1985, the age for first marriage, around 33.2 years, was 169.8. In other words, there were 169.8 men for every 100 women. This is significantly high, considering that the natural gender ratio is between 104-105. The unmarried rate for men born in 1985 (46.5%) was 1.6 times that of women (29.1%), similar to the birth ratio imbalance.
For those born in 1990, close to the average age for first marriage, the gender ratio is 144.6, with the population of unmarried men (260,903) being 80,479 higher compared to the population of unmarried women (181,154). Cho Sungho, a senior researcher at KIHASA, stated, “In 1990, the birth gender ratio for third-born children reached 193.7. This is the result of the selective gender preference of children. Even if the gender ratio is balanced, it is difficult to achieve complete matching due to individual preferences such as age, personality, and appearance. However, the significant gender imbalance makes an excess of male population in the marriage market inevitable for a while.”
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Article posted in 2012: ‘In 10 years, time when women will be eager to marry will come’
The reason why this era has yet to arrive:
Even if all unmarried men and women aged 20-49 are paired 1:1, over a million unmarried men remain unmatched.
-There are so few women that even if every woman of every age re-marries, some men still wouldn’t be able to marry.
-What can you do?ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ This is the result of male-preference biasㅋㅋㅋ It’s funny to see them complaining about women not wanting to marry or have children after they killed female babies in the past.
-If they can’t find a partner, they can just live alone. I don’t understand why they have to whine so much.
-Why are you matching up people as you please?
-If I were a man, I’d be studying feminism and working on my competitivenessㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Now is not the time to be a Donghyun (NB: This is equal to Karen, but for Korean men).
-Parents from previous generations were so sure their precious sons would marry and bring home daughter-in-laws who would have kids and handle the housework, so they aborted their babies if they found out it was a girlㅋㅋ
-Is it even possible to pair 1:1?ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Maybe men with no partners can just marry each other. They’d get along really well.
-Let’s promote same-sex marriage among men.
-That is what you call karma. Who told you to abort baby girls?
-Donghyuns wouldn’t understand this article… There are just too many numbers in it………
-We can just abandon monogamy and have one Nam-mi-sae (NB: Woman who is crazy for men) take care of ten men.
-There’ll be one more man left because I don’t have the thoughts to get married~
-They’re saying they’ll just marry foreign women…
-What else can we do? Men should just have kids with each other!
-They were the ones who aborted baby girls because they preferred to have sons. Live with your sons forever.
-This is the result of national gendercide.
