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South Korea to see population plummet to 1970s levels, government says
CNN via Yahoo News· 5 months agoSouth Korea, the country with the world’s lowest birth rate, expects it to fall even further in the...
One sign of South Korea's population crisis: Rural elementary schools are running out of children
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoLee Eun-sook, the principal at Dochang Elementary, teaches Chinese characters to second-graders. The...
Why Women in Asia Are Having Fewer Babies
Time via Yahoo News· 3 months agoA woman and child cross the street in Tokyo, July 19, 2021. The number of babies born in Japan in 2023 fell for an eighth straight year to a new low....
South Korea Muses a New Military Exemption: Serve Your Country By Having More Kids
Time via Yahoo News· 1 year agoCredit - Im Yeongsik—iStock Photo/Getty Images Even being a member of BTS, South Korea’s most...
How South Korea's grandmas are returning to school
NextShark via Yahoo News· 2 months agoLast year, an 82-year-old woman made headlines as the oldest student to take South Korea’s notoriously difficult college entrance test. Since the 1970s,...
South Korea in demographic crisis as many stop having babies
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoYoo Young Yi’s grandmother gave birth to six children. “My husband and I like babies so much … but...
South Korean construction firm pays staff $75,000 each time they have a baby
NextShark via Yahoo News· 3 months agoA construction firm in South Korea is offering 100 million Korean won ($75,000) for every child born...
What China's decline means for the U.S., Taiwan
The Week via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA crib. Illustrated | Getty Images There are fewer people in China. The country's population shrank by 850,000 people in 2022, the first time the country...
Watch: Kim Jong-un cries as he tells women to have more babies
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 6 months agoKim Jong-un was filmed crying while appealing to North Korea’s women to have more children Kim...
10 Korean Stocks Listed in the U.S.
Insider Monkey via Yahoo Finance· 9 months agoIn this piece, we will take a look at the ten Korean stocks listed in the U.S. If you want to skip our introduction to Korean businesses and want to jump...
