"ICRIED when I heard," writes one X blogger, recalling the moment she learned that her baby was a boy. Those were bitter tears. The woman was "so envious" of a mother who had just given birth to a daughter. She was not at all unusual. South Koreans of reproductive age now prefer girls to boys (see chart). They have created a new term, "ddal-babo"-"daughter crazy"-for men who go loopy over their female offspring.
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