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It's a long story, but I'll try to summarize.

In Korean culture, men are expected to make money and women are expected to raise children. The net effect is that all the women want to marry rich men who can support them and their lifestyle -- which often involves high fashion, expensive cars and meals, etc... You can see the problem. Traditionally, women made things work despite whether their husband can make any money. They were industrious and frugal and trusted to manage the finances in the house, while the men worked backbreaking jobs with ungodly risks and hours. But the modern woman doesn't want any of the responsibility and all of the "lifestyle" that they see on TV. They think if they are pretty enough that men will marry them and give them this life on a silver platter.

The men realize that unless they are the 0.001% of Korean society that is going to get a top-tier job out of college, there is no way they can live up to the expectations of the women, and so they can't even find a date let alone get married. Expecting your wife to either live like a poor person or to work is just too much for the women, so they'd rather be single than married.

Things came to a head a number of years ago when men were complaining about this fact along with the fact that they must serve in the military and that they are losing their jobs to single women who don't have to make enough money to support an entire family, and some feminists tried to make fun of men for being so weak and pathetic. The backlash was almost instantaneous and destructive. It got so far as the government, and people were losing elections because men were accusing them of being pro-women. Companies have gone bankrupt simply because they were accused of being pro-women and anti-men.

The men in Korea are fed up with the women and they are sick of being blamed for all of society's problems. They have been pissed on by their ancestors and parents and put in an impossible position and then the women who were supposed to help them get out of it are pissing on them as well and laughing at them all the while.

Right now in Korea, you can't win an election or keep a job or run a company unless you are explicitly pro-man and anti-consumerist woman bitch. There is actually a political party rapidly gaining power that is anti-woman and pro-man. They want to create a society where men are respected and protected and women can't make unreasonable demands on men anymore.