For many young South Koreans, dating is too expensive, or too dangerous

Re:For many young South Koreans, dating is too expensive, or... by mschuster91 on Sunday May 12, 2019 @08:21AM (#19891458)

ITT: people advocating for forced arranged marriages. Jeez, what the hell?

Not to dig into such petty stuff as human rights which entirely forbid arranged marriages, that would be too easy, but as if that would even solve the problem that is literally described in the article, people having no time to develop meaningful relationships or interpersonal skill because in a cutthroat environment all that matters is more useless "certifications" and working one's ass off in underpaid crap jobs just to survive, much less afford a date?

Fix minimum wages, overtime limits and job supplies, and (young) people will start procreating all on their own!

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Re:For many young South Koreans, dating is too expensive, or... by deepakkarki on Sunday May 12, 2019 @08:35AM (#19891512)

Arranged marriage != forced marrige.

Majority of marriages in south east Asia and India are arranged marriages. There's nothing unethical about it.

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Re:For many young South Koreans, dating is too expensive, or... by mschuster91 on Sunday May 12, 2019 @10:07AM (#19891980)

> There's nothing unethical about it.

In many countries, the husband has a legal right to demand sex from his wife and rape in a marriage is not a crime either - in fact, even "civilized" countries such as Germany had it until recently, it took us Germans until 1998 to finally make marital rape a crime. One of the politicians in favor of keeping it legal actually ended up being our current Interior Minister but ah well, I digress... point is, the line between arranged and outright forced marriage is thin, very thin.

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Re:For many young South Koreans, dating is too expensive, or... by deepakkarki on Sunday May 12, 2019 @01:47PM (#19893316)

But it has nothing to do with arranged marriages. I know Indians in the US who have gotten into an arranged marriage, and obviously the local rules apply. OTOH if marital rape in not a crime in some country, it might as well be committed whether or not it was an arranged marriage.

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Re:For many young South Koreans, dating is too expensive, or... by awaythrowwwww on Sunday May 12, 2019 @02:32PM (#19893600)

Yes, and from experience when South Asian people (especially women) get to experience this free-agency dating thing we have in Europe and America they suddenly become very reluctant to switch back to their arranged spouse. Strange how these things go.

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