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 [...]