There's some gender imbalance. Marriage and fertility rates have also been falling steadily in recent years, you aren't that far off. Most of people I know her

There's some gender imbalance. Marriage and fertility rates have also been falling steadily in recent years, you aren't that far off. Most of people I know here still get married for all the wrong reasons (social status, money, family and social pressure, ...), and you need to add the fact that career-wise, males are typically lagging 2-3 years behind females because of the military conscription. Antiquated Confucian values and breakneck development of the country are a terrible mix in my opinion, and I believe it'll affect the society in ways that are more extreme than anything we've seen elsewhere (the comparison with Japan is easy). But I reckon that Korea is also able to react quickly, sometimes with drastic measures, let's see.