Some of what you wrote is rather questionable interpretation, and some others make me wonder if your spouse left the country in 1980s and never visited Korea si

Some of what you wrote is rather questionable interpretation, and some others make me wonder if your spouse left the country in 1980s and never visited Korea since. > Korean society is high patriarchal. Domestic violence is persistent. Families are not complete until they have a son. Multiple daughters are considered a burden. Gender roles are consistently enforced. Korea does have gender equality issues, but this is outdated info. Decades ago, it was illegal for a doctor to tell the sex of a fetus, because some people would want a son and selectively abort girls, resulting in huge sex imbalance. These days, very few people under 70 would think "a complete family needs a son" - if you say anything like that you'll be publicly ridiculed. Telling fetus sex was made legal in 2010, because nobody gave a damn about "having a son" any more.