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Single men in Korea outnumber single women by 19.6 percent: Report (koreajoongangdaily.joins.com)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Why is there a preference for sons? Is it because they would traditionally get better jobs and take care of their parents or…?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Carry on the name?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I know That's a fairly common experience elsewhere. I have a cousin who is a fourth of his name. I think he or his wife understood the twisted family dynamic that came with playing favorites like that because they didn't carry on the tradition when they had their son.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

I was told in Asian society the women marries into the males family and basically forsakes her original one. So patents need males to take care of them when they are okd. I dk if it's BS.