Comments by "" (@MarvinPowell1) on "South Korea's population crisis: why is nobody getting married or having babies?" video.

  1. I'm an American living here in South Korea. In my personal opinion, the housing system here is atrocious and I hate the idea of needing to pay a $10,000 down deposit just to rent a tiny 20m² shoebox in Seoul or many other big cities in Gyeonggi (the state Seoul is in.) And as far as dating goes, Korean men are pretty open-minded and willing to date internationally, while Korean women are almost as picky and entitled as Western women and discriminate heavily based on ethnicity, height, and income; generally only dating tall (183 cm+), successful Korean or White men, with almost no exceptions. So if you're a tall white foreigner who's male, you stand a small chance with Korean women, but no one else does, further leading to the lack of marriages and birthrates. The dating scene in South Korea is almost as bad as it is in the West, and when you combine this with Korea's awful housing system and longer work hours than Western countries (generally 8am-6:30pm), it's not a surprise at all while South Korea's birthrates are so low.
    60