It’s official. Korea’s total fertility rate — the average number of expected births from a woman in her lifetime — hit a fresh historic low of 0.72 last year by sinking from the previous record of 0.78. The number of newborns also fell below...
A newborn nursery at a public postpartum care center in Seoul on Tuesday. President Yoon Suk Yeol ordered a fundamental shift in policies to tackle Korea’s low birth rates at the last Cabinet meeting of the year on Tuesday.
Korea's obstetrics and gynecology (Ob-Gyn) field now faces extinction as the number of newborns rapidly shrinks.
Migration can help highly skilled female workers enter the labor market, which can increase Korea’s economic growth rate, according to Nobel laureate Michael Kremer Tuesday.
The government has announced a plan to adjust the school entrance age from six years old to five by 2025.
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