SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) – May 5 was South Korea’s first Children’s Day celebrated by a greater number of seniors than children, once again highlighting the country’s rapidly shifting demographics towards an aging society. Using the OECD’s standard of working age population (from 15 to 64) to separate “children” from “elderly,” there were 6,873,722 [...]
SEJONG, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of childbirths in South Korea fell for the 15th month in a row in February amid a deepening trend of late marriage and a rapidly aging population, a government report showed Wednesday. About 30,600 babies were born in February, down 12.3 percent, or 4,300, from 34,900 tallied a year earlier, according to the data from Statistics Korea. Childbirths have [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Men who have higher incomes but are busier at work are less likely to have a baby, according to a report from the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs. In a report titled ‘Mid-long policy approach toward demographic changes’, released on 28th, the researchers noted that husbands who [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The government announced Sunday a revision to its Rules on Housing Supply, to include fetuses and adoptees as part of its ‘multi-child special housing supply’ program. The program was designed to promote child birth with Korea’s fertility rate stuck among the lowest in the world, and gives priority in [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The results of a recent study suggest that climate change is not only responsible for causing natural disasters, but also for lowering the birth rate and increasing the number of low birth-weight infants. A research team at the University of Utah reported the results of their analysis on 70,000 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – “Divorce in Twilight,” a popularized term referring to the divorce among the mid-aged and the elderly of more than 20-year of marriage, is all-time high in South Korea, as once a more family-oriented society is undergoing drastic demographic changes in structure while members of families are increasingly individualistic and [...]