SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Yonhap) – South Korea continued to experience a natural decline in it population in November as deaths continued to outnumber births, data showed Wednesday.
A total of 17,531 babies were born in November, down 7.6 percent from a year earlier, according to the data from Statistics Korea.
I remember watching a video not long ago about this girl in South Korea who went to uni, couldn’t find a job in her area. Then started doing web development and also had to work in a convenience store and could barely survive.
I know there’s a lot of people who never wanted to have kids to begin with and that pop decline is a worldwide phenomenon right now. However, even if someone wanted to have kids, how the heck can you do it if you can barely survive even with 2 jobs?
Thats quitter talk, how are you going to have your labor extracted by the Chaebol and make society proud if you don’t live up to your parents expeecations they heaped on you since you existed?
There’s a reason almost every K-drama has a “chaebol heir”-type character as part of the main cast/main couple. S. Korea just refuses to acknowledge that it has a class/wealth inequality problem that is leading to many of their current social issues.
South Korea has one of the highest population densities. Almost every country with a higher density is a micro state or a small island. In the long run this might not be a bad thing. Sure there will probably be an economic collapse or something, but that won’t be the end of South Korea. Once they crawl out of the economic rubble they will probably have a healthier economy. And by that time robotics will be running a major part of the economy even in the health care system.
Bro, South Korea literally climbed out of economic rubble a generation ago…like literally within the last 50-60 years. I don’t think they’ve gotten over the generational trauma from that yet, if we look at the hypercompetition over their limited social resources.
At least SK got rich before it got old
