A Vietnamese student in her 20s has been taken into police custody for allegedly abandoning her newborn baby boy in front of a child care institution in Daejeon, Yonhap News Agency reported on Tuesday.
After eight consecutive years of decline, the number of expected children per woman rose to 0.75 last year from the record low of 0.72 the year before. Experts forecast the fertility rate to reach roughly 0.8 in 2025.
A couple was sentenced for abandoning and selling two newborns, including one for hospital fees, without legal procedures.
A nursing assistant at a postnatal care facility in Cheongju, North Chungcheong, has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for repeatedly abusing newborns, some as young as four days old.
A woman in her 40s was detained on Tuesday for allegedly abandoning the body of her newborn, police said Thursday.
The lightest newborn ever recorded in Korea has safely gone home 198 days after her birth. Weighing in at just 260 grams (9.17 ounces), Ye-rang was born on April 22 at 25 weeks and five days of gestation.
Newborn counts climbed in Chinese zodiac years represented by more divine animals. However, whether the year 2024 - the Year of Blue Dragon - will witness a reversal of Korea’s plummeting newborn count remains to be seen.
An infant nicknamed Ahhongi is being held by his father at Cha University Gangnam Medical Center in Seoul on Monday. Ahhongi is the first newborn to be delivered in 2024.
18,948 newborns were born in August this year, down 2,798 babies, or 12.8 percent, compared to August last year. This is the largest decline in 2 years and 9 months.
The National Assembly on Tuesday amended the Criminal Act to scrap the previous maximum sentence of 10 years for infanticide. Infanticide and the abandonment of a newborn’s body are now subject to the same punishments as murder and abandonment ...
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