Has Jeju Island's population reached a turning point?

Part of the narrative shorthand for Jeju is that it is known for "three Ws" – wind, women and water.

However, Korean news accounts on Monday, citing statistics released on Sunday, said that men now outnumber women on Jeju – by 148.

That's a first, at least going back as population data started being kept in the late 19th century. In the first count on the island in 1873, Jeju had 39,965 men and 47,962 women, about 83 men for every 100 women.

Women outnumbered men by even greater absolute and percentage measures just after the Korean War in the early 1950s.