SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Amid the deepening low fertility crisis and record-low birth rates, there is a growing focus on using public financial resources to support egg freezing for women of childbearing age. This is a desperate measure to reverse the declining birth rate, but it seems necessary to reach a social consensus on [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Korean women who freeze their eggs for the chance to have a baby of their own later is increasing. Oocyte cryopreservation, more commonly known as egg freezing, is a method of preserving a woman’s fertility so she can try to have children at a later date. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of young South Korean women who have yet to give birth have the intention to preserve their eggs through ‘egg freezing,’ a method used to save women’s ability to get pregnant in the future, regardless of whether or not they plan to get married in the future. [...]
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 [...]