https://www.scmp.com/rss/517491/feed Dudley L. Poston Jr is an emeritus professor of sociology at Texas A&M University. He conducts research in several areas, including the demography of race and ethnicity, international migration, the demography of sexual minorities, and the demography of China, Taiwan and South Korea. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com South Korea’s bachelor time bomb is about to go off. Following a historic 30-year-long imbalance in the male-to-female sex ratio at birth, young men far outnumber young women in the country. As a result, some 700,000 to 800,000 “extra” boys born since the mid-1980s may not be able to find South Korean girls to marry. As a demographer who over the past four decades has conducted extensive research on East Asian populations, I know that this increased number of South Korean boys will have a huge... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3247922/south-koreas-preference-sons-could-see-some-800000-men-unable-marry-locals?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3247922/south-koreas-preference-sons-could-see-some-800000-men-unable-marry-locals?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Jan 2024 19:00:14 +0000