SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea recorded a 16th consecutive month of year-on-year growth in births in October, but the pace of increase slowed to its weakest level this year, underscoring how fragile the country’s demographic rebound remains. A total of 21,958 babies were born in October, a 2.5 percent increase from a [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Dual-income couples are more likely to consider having children when housework and earning power are shared equally between partners, a new study has found. According to research published by the Korea Institute of Child Care and Education, women’s willingness to have children rises significantly when household chores are evenly [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Statistics Korea announced plans on January 21 to develop a groundbreaking Population Dynamics Panel Statistics project that will examine how economic and social factors influence marriage and childbirth decisions among different age groups. The new study will track life events of individuals born between 1983 and 1995, analyzing how factors [...]
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, [...]