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South Korea's gender imbalance is bad news for men − outnumbering women, many face bleak marriage prospects

  • Written by Dudley L. Poston Jr., Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University
imageIn South Korea, there are nor enough young Korean women for young Korean men to marry. RUNSTUDIO/Getty Images

South Korea’s bachelor time bomb is about to really 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...

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