Low birth rates, declining marriage rates, and declining dating rates are actually global trends

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Because Korea is such a dynamic and fast-moving society, it might seem like this is happening uniquely in Korea, but
it is actually a phenomenon appearing in the US, Europe, and even in countries like South America or Turkey.
Over there, they refer to this as a "Sex Recession" (which is also used academically).
This doesn't just stop at not getting married, not having children, or not cohabitating; it includes not dating and not having sex, and this is actually reflected in the statistics.
In places like the US, statistics show a significant decrease in the average frequency of sexual intercourse compared to the younger years of the Baby Boomer or Gen X generations, a massive increase in the percentage of people who do not have sex for a year, an increase in "forever alone" individuals, and so on.
Even in France, which was once thought to be obsessed with sex, a similar phenomenon is occurring.
Online, people argue things like "those who want to do it, do it," "it's because people are unattractive," or "it's because people lack money,"
but it's unlikely that modern people have suddenly become more incompetent or unattractive compared to the past.
While it may be true that, on an individual level, wealthy and successful men and women tend to date and marry more,
at the same time, the fact that ordinary men and women are marrying, dating, and having fewer children than before has also become a social and structural phenomenon.
I think I remember a politician—was it Kim Moo-sung?—getting criticized heavily for telling people to "just try harder" without realizing how society had changed, but that statement wasn't entirely wrong. Because it is a universal truth throughout time and space that the more effort you put in, the higher your probability of success.
However, they were criticized because their lack of insight and sense—focusing only on individual effort while ignoring structural causes—made them unfit as politicians lol.
It is the same with this issue.
While it is true that, on an individual level, successful men and women who put in the effort are more likely to have various dating experiences, at the same time, there is a flow of social structural change that cannot be attributed solely to individual problems.