SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of babies born in South Korea dropped to a record low in July, data showed Wednesday, in the latest sign that underscores the country’s gloomy demographic situation with the chronically low birth rate. A total of 22,352 babies were born in July, down 2.8 percent from the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of babies born in South Korea dropped to a record low in June, data showed Wednesday, in the latest sign that underscores the country’s gloomy demographic situation with the chronically low birth rate. A total of 21,526 babies were born in June, down 2.7 percent from the [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of babies born in South Korea dropped to a new record low in May, data showed Wednesday, in the latest sign that underscores the country’s gloomy demographic situation. A total of 22,052 babies were born in May, down 3.5 percent from the previous year, according to the [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of babies born in South Korea declined to a fresh record low in April, data showed Wednesday, underpinning the country’s gloomy demographic situation with the chronically low birth rate. A total of 22,820 babies were born in April, down 2.2 percent from the previous year, according to [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — As the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage on, the number of both domestic and international child adoptions last year in Korea reached an all-time low. The Ministry of Health and Welfare reported that last year there were 260 domestic adoptions and 232 foreign adoptions, as approved by the court. [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of babies born in South Korea fell to a record low in February, data showed Wednesday, underscoring the country’s chronically low birth rate. A total of 21,461 babies were born in February, down 5.7 percent from a year earlier, according to the data compiled by Statistics Korea. [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of babies born in South Korea fell to a record low in January, data showed Wednesday, underpinning the country’s chronically low birth rate. A total of 25,003 babies were born in January, down 6.3 percent from a year earlier, according to the data compiled by Statistics Korea. [...]
SEJONG, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The proportion of babies born to multicultural families out of all childbirths in South Korea reached an all-time high in 2019 due to the country’s low birthrate, government data showed Thursday. The number of babies born to multicultural married couples came to 17,939 last year, down 0.8 percent from [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A 37-year-old worker referred to only as Kim was asked to leave right after he brought his wife and new-born twins to rest at a postnatal care center. After the resurgence of COVID-19 in South Korea in recent days, the nation’s postnatal care centers shifted their policy towards banning [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — In the last five years, the vast majority of the babies abandoned in baby boxes were found to have been sent to so-called ‘protection facilities’. The Board of Audit and Inspection of Korea (BAI) reported on Tuesday that between 2014 and 2018, 929 baby orphans out of 962 (96.6 [...]