I didn't follow it closely and I just checked the results to see whether young men did vote for the PPP again. SK is interesting because it seems to be the only country where the "young men going right-wing" seems true (whereas in western countries young women go left-wing while the young men vote remains stable and this is falsely framed by feminists as a "young men going right-wing" narrative).

I checked the results to see who the idaenam vote went to and two things surprised me: - The gender gap among young Koreans for the Lee Jae-myung vote (the center-left candidate who won) is massive: 24 points - However to my surprise this gap didn't benefit the PPP candidate (the right-wing party formerly in power) but a 3rd independent candidate named Lee Jun-seok who did 8% overall but 37% among young men!

I checked his Wikipedia page. He is a former member of the PPP and apparently (its wiki so take this with a grain of salt) was the one who played up the gender division to start with as well as apparently generational division. His overall policy proposals seem less extreme than what we hear from the western right-wing, however in terms of rhethoric he does seem very anti-feminist.

Im not sure what to think about it. Will the idaenam become the global vanguard of antifeminism? Is it good news for us or not? Part of me is thrilled to see massive resistance to feminism, but another part of me is worried that this will play exactly into feminist rethoric and stigmatisation of ugly/short/autistic/NEET young men?

Insight from SK men and/or people who followed this closely is appreciated.