SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of women of childbearing age has declined by nearly 820,000 over the past 10 years, a phenomenon expected to continue as the low birthrate, which has been falling for decades, takes its toll, a parliamentary report said Wednesday. The population of women aged 15-49, the group that [...]
CHEONGJU, South Korea, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Cheongju, despite being the capital and largest city in North Chungcheong Province, has a population of a mere 830,000 citizens. But with a recent verdict that it would need at least 1 million city residents to establish a self-sufficient economic bloc, the city has come up with [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly half of married women think of marriage as an option rather than a life’s must, and just as many of them say it is okay to be married and not have children, a survey released on Tuesday said. A poll of 11,009 married women aged 15-49 found that [...]
SEJONG, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of childbirths in South Korea fell at the fastest clip in more than two years in April on a low birthrate and late marriage trend, government data showed Thursday. About 35,300 babies were born in April, down 7.3 percent, or 2,800, from 38,100 a year earlier, extending [...]
SEOUL, March 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Song Soo-hyun, 39, recently spent 3.5 million won (US$2,900) to have her eggs frozen at a local fertility center so she could still give birth some day in the future when she finds Mr. Right. “Next year, I hit my forties. I chose to freeze my eggs because I [...]
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 [...]
POHANG, Jul. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Pohang has delivered its first baby identity card to a couple whose child was born one month ago. The baby identity cards have nothing to do with official identity cards for Koreans over 16 years old (17 in Korean age), and are unique to Pohang. The [...]
SEJONG, Apr. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Koreans tying the knot fell for the third straight year in 2014, mainly due to fewer people in the marriageable age, government data showed Thursday. According to the data by Statistics Korea, the number of marriages stood at 305,507 last year, down 5.4 percent from [...]