SEOUL, June 26 (Korea Bizwire) — With recent reports from the state auditor that some 2,000 babies born in South Korea since 2015 were undocumented after birth, concerns are growing regarding births occurring outside of hospitals. According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare and Statistics Korea, births occurring outside of hospitals account for 1 [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Over half of young women in South Korea said they are willing to give birth, a government survey showed Tuesday, as the nation is struggling to boost the world’s lowest fertility rate. According to the survey of 15,000 young people aged 19 to 34, 55.3 percent of female respondents [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Among South Korea’s newly-wedded couples who have been married for fewer than five years, those with children gave birth to their first baby 16 months after marriage on average. The number of newly-wedded couples with babies amounted to 520,321 in 2020. It took 16.7 months on average for them [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A healthy set of quintuplets has been born in South Korea for the first time in 34 years, doctors said Friday. A 30-year-old woman gave birth to four girls and one boy in one pregnancy at Seoul National University Hospital late Thursday. They were delivered via cesarean section involving [...]
YONGIN, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A Siberian tiger, classified as an Appendix I endangered species, has given birth to five cubs. The zoo of the Everland amusement park in Yongin, south of Seoul, announced that three female and two male cubs were born on June 27. Siberian tigers are known to give birth to [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s first woman born by in-vitro fertilization (IVF) gave birth to a healthy baby through natural pregnancy. The Seoul National University Hospital said that the woman, who was born by IVF five minutes earlier than her twin brother in 1985, had a successful natural delivery in February 2019. Born [...]
SEOUL, March 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Moms in their 20s are becoming a rare sight as South Korean women are typically giving birth to children at an older age. Statistics Korea reported that mothers in their 20s gave birth to 60,200 infants last year, accounting for 22.1 percent of the 272,400 babies born. Among them, [...]
NAMWON, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Heartwarming news came from a family of cows on a farm in Songdong-myeon in Namwon, North Jeolla Province that survived last summer’s severe flooding of the Seomjin River. In August last year, when the Seomjin River dam collapsed due to heavy rainfall, many homes and barns in Songdong-myeon district [...]
GURYE, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A cow that survived a flood by climbing onto a roof successfully gave birth after she was rescued. The cow, which was rescued from Yangjeong village in Gurye County, South Jeolla Province, gave birth to twin calves on Tuesday morning, immediately following the rescue. Despite being exhausted from the [...]
SANGJU, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A cow gave birth to South Korea’s very first quadruplets at a local farm in Sangju, North Gyeongsang Province. The cow gave birth to two female and two male calves last Friday. The calves were born earlier than the originally expected due date, Mar. 5. The mother is a [...]