Why is Twitter Buzzing with South Korea’s #NoMarriage Movement?
What is #NoMarriage movement and why is it gaining momentum in South Korea?
As the rise in population continues to pose a serious challenge to countries such as India and the United States, another kind of challenge, stark opposite to this, is slowly taking over South Korea.
According to a Bloomberg report, South Korea is grappling with a low fertility rate as substantiated by government data indicating that the number of deaths in a year will soon outnumber the number of births.
Recently, a section of South Korean women have taken to the bi-hon lifestyle (to not marry, to not have children), thereby rejecting the mi-hon or the "not yet married" tag.
The bi-hon lifestyle has culminated into the #NoMarriage movement on Twitter.
But why are women– especially women in South Korea – flooding the internet with the #NoMarriage hashtag, despite a lingering population problem?
#NoMarriage Movement
According to South Korean resident Baeck Ha-na, who runs the YouTube channel Solo-darity, the aim of the #NoMarriage movement is to encourage women to exercise their own agency and focus on themselves rather than ‘live a life to get married’, as required by societal norms.
She also claims that the government’s approach to get women married early, in order to increase fertility rates, is “abusive” and “frustrating.”
What is Twitter Saying?
Meanwhile, a user on Twitter also pointed that the government's approach to get a woman married, to fix the low fertility rate, banishes the idea of advocating child adoption.
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(With inputs from Bloomberg)
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