South Korea’s fertility rate falls to a record low

FOR MUCH of its history, South Korea worried about having too many babies. In the 1960s and 1970s the government set targets for family size. South Koreans were told that “even two are a lot”. Sterilisation was subsidised. Today the country has the opposite problem. In 2006 the government set a goal of raising the total fertility rate—a measure of births per woman—from 1.2 to 1.6 by boosting child-care subsidies and cutting taxes for families.

In many ways, the country is a victim of its own success. The characteristics that correlate most strongly with small family size include income and education. On these measures, South Korea has performed better than almost any country in the world. The country’s rapid economic growth from the 1960s to the mid-1990s is considered an economic miracle. Today 70% of young South Koreans have a university degree, compared with 45% across the OECD, a club of mostly rich countries.

But other features of South Korean society may be dragging birth rates down. For one, working hours are among the longest in the rich world. In 2018 South Koreans laboured for 39 hours per week on average, 16% above the OECD mean. Work at home, meanwhile, is not shared equally. A survey in 2018 by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, a think-tank, found that married women do about four times as much housework and three times as much child care as their husbands.

Mishcon_de_Reya Read ‘Kim ji yeon born 1982’and then i’m not surprised with this fact...

Mishcon_de_Reya Should all countries begin to rationalise this 'behaviour', what happens to the human race?!

Mishcon_de_Reya Time to learn what sharing means

Mishcon_de_Reya Freedom.

Mishcon_de_Reya The world desperately needs a reducing population. Just like Europe is accepting migrants to help the economy so can Korea.

Mishcon_de_Reya interesting they only interviewed portly tomboys?

Mishcon_de_Reya No one on their deathbed wishes they had spent more time at the office or had got one more degree! Family, children and relationships are their focus.

Mishcon_de_Reya The birth rate/marriage issue may be over-simplified here, but in STEM careers it is tough for women. Look at the '08 Athena Factor publication by Harvard Business Review funded by Goldman Sachs, etc. Large of women found to leave mid/height career & majority NOT b/c of family.

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Mishcon_de_Reya They will go into extinction.

Mishcon_de_Reya July Fourth Weekend was a bloodbath in US cities: Chicago—80 Americans shot, 17 killed New York City—64 Americans shot, 10 killed Philadelphia—31 Americans shot, 7 killed Atlanta—28 Americans shot, 4 killed What do they all have in common? They're all run by Democrat Mayors.

Mishcon_de_Reya Easier to be single.

Mishcon_de_Reya cuz their smart

shenoy70 Mishcon_de_Reya Wait till Islamists get to know about it . They are ready to invade such places with population Ghad

Mishcon_de_Reya The same situation in North Korea, maybe the only underdeveloped country with a low fertility rate.

How exactly do you manage to not even mention cost of education?

Mishcon_de_Reya A struggle between freedom and responsibility, individual goal vs. collective vision. The role of man and women has overlapped too much, leading to the desire to take fewer responsibilities. The family as a source of continuation and survival of societies became a victim

Mishcon_de_Reya they don’t look like women to me..

Mishcon_de_Reya Perhaps because of a famine in China in 1960 that killed more than 30 million people. Communism from hell.

Mishcon_de_Reya Because they spend more money on plastic surgeries.

lootgous We can help them

Why focus on Korea although this is a common issue on the developed country with small land?

Belligerent (NoKo), bully (China), cunning (Japan) cos nearby; terrible environment (self-made+polluted air from China, radiated seawater from Japan); disastrous education; crazy house prices in Seoul ($1 million); no social capital; sagging economy; terrible corporate culture

Ok..ok So.. let's dance with immigrationnnn!

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