SEJONG, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 40 percent of newlywed couples had no children last year, reflecting the country’s chronically low birthrate and late marriage trend, data showed Thursday. According to the data compiled by Statistics Korea, 1.32 million couples got married in the five years up to November 2018, down 4.2 percent [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – South Koreans appear to consider job difficulties and education costs as the main causes of the nation’s low fertility rate, a survey showed Wednesday. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism unveiled the results of its big data analysis of about 310,000 social media posts for the past two [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Married women typically want to have two children but give up on their plans because of the cost of child rearing, a report said Monday. The Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs canvassed approximately 11,000 women nationwide aged 15 to 49 for the report. Results said women on [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of newborns in South Korea dipped again in November, government data showed Wednesday, in the latest sign of the chronic low birth rate that has plagued the Asian country for more than a decade. About 27,000 babies were born in November, down 11.2 percent, or 3,400, from [...]
SEJONG, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of newborn babies in South Korea dropped for 17 months in a row in April, a government report showed Wednesday, in the latest sign that underscores challenges in boosting its low birthrate. About 30,400 babies were born in April, down 13.6 percent, or 4,800, from 35,200 tallied [...]
SEJONG, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Childbirths in South Korea increased in 2015 from a year earlier amid ongoing efforts to tackle the country’s chronically low birthrate, a report showed Wednesday. The number of babies born last year came to about 438,700, up 0.8 percent, or 3,300, from a year earlier, a turnaround from a [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of childbirths in South Korea rose for the second straight month in November, a government report showed Tuesday, amid government efforts to deal with a rapidly aging population. The number of babies born in November stood at about 33,700, up 4 percent, or 1,300, from the same [...]