Posted on 05/19/2024 2:59:11 PM PDT by Morgana
Conservative South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol ordered his officials to begin a “complete review” of all federal policies to encourage Koreans to have children on Friday, following his announcement of the future establishment of a “low birthrate response planning ministry.”
Yoon announced the planned creation of a new ministry to address the nation’s birth rate collapse on May 9 during an extended press conference filled with newsworthy moments, including an apology offered for a corruption scandal involving First Lady Kim Keon-hee. The scandal, in which Kim was reportedly caught accepting a $2,200 Dior handbag as an illicit gift, peaked right before South Korea’s midterm elections in April, in which the left-wing Democratic Party crushed Yoon’s People Power Party (PPP).
The remarks Friday were made during what the Yonhap news agency described as a “financial strategy meeting” to reorganize federal government spending in Seoul. Yoon tasked his officials with studying the outrageous amount of money Seoul has spent on attempting to increase South Korea’s birth rate – over $273 billion since 2006 – and the relative success rates of individual programs.
There is no significant evidence that the billions have made a difference. South Korea has maintained the world’s lowest birth rate for a decade. As of 2023, the national fertility rate stood at 0.72 children per woman of childbearing age. Some parts of the country, such as Seoul, have logged birth rates as low as 0.55 children per woman. For comparison, “replacement fertility” – the rate at which women must have children in a country to ensure the population stays stable – is 2.1 children per woman of childbearing age.
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Ban contraception and abortions.
That is what I was thinking. The “usual” reasons until I dug deeper.
Korea like a lot of countries is very traditional and wants women to be married and have children. There is no “single mother” or “Baby daddy drama” there like here in America. It just does not happen.
Problem is they are not getting married. Women and men say they can’t afford it and are choosing to stay single and in the work place. I can’t even tell that they are dating.
Don’t forget feminism. Feminism teaches Women that they’ll never be the equal of man unless they have a big career. Meanwhile they forget that the Man can’t give birth.
This might have something to do with it...
“Abortion in South Korea was decriminalized, effective 1 January 2021, by a 2019 order of the Constitutional Court of Korea. It is currently legal throughout pregnancy, as no new law has been enacted.[1] Thus there are no gestational limits or other restrictions.”
Ban abortion and import big breasted women—that should do it.
They can afford it, they just don’t want to make sacrifices.
“The future belongs to whoever shows up.”
And currently the ones reproducing like rabbits are Muslims and africans... and they are definitely showing up... at the borders... by the millions.
I wanted to say “keep women out of the work force” but that seemed kind of sexist.
Decriminalizing abortion did not reverse declining trend in Korea
By Kim Arin
https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20220630000712
There was no significant change in the number of abortions in the first year since the procedure was decriminalized in South Korea, government researchers said Thursday.
According to the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, the overall declining trend in abortions appeared to continue through the recent years.
Ending a pregnancy was no longer deemed a crime in Korea as of Jan. 1 last year, after the Constitutional Court ruled in April 2019 that the ban on abortion was unconstitutional.
Surveys remain the main source of information about how many abortions are performed in Korea because of the procedure’s unclear legal status and a lack of information on which clinics offer it. The National Assembly is yet to meet the Constitutional Court’s deadline to amend laws to reflect its 2019 ruling.
KIHASA conducted an online survey of 8,500 women aged 15 to 49 years old from Nov. 19 to Dec. 6, 2021, and found 7.1 percent saying they had terminated a pregnancy at some point.
Among 3,519 women who have been pregnant at least once in their lives, 17.2 percent said they had had an abortion at some point.
The average age at which women reported having an abortion was 28.5 years old. Slightly over half or 50.8 percent said they were unmarried at the time of the procedure, with 39.9 percent saying they were married.
Just 7.7 percent used drugs, while 92.2 percent said they underwent surgery. Access to abortion pills is additionally difficult because Korea has no drugs approved for the purpose.
More than a third of women who had a medical, rather than surgical, abortion said they chose medication because it was cheaper. On average medication costs less than 200,000 won ($154) which compares with surgery that can cost up to around 1 million won.
The survey showed the two most common reasons women sought abortion was disruption to education or employment following pregnancy, with 35.5 percent saying so, followed closely by financial insecurity at 34 percent. Other common reasons included family planning, strained or abusive relationships with their partners, and health issues.
KIHASA concluded that there was insufficient long-term data to be able to determine how legalization might influence the overall trend in the incidence of abortion.
The estimated annual number of abortions has declined drastically in Korea over 10 years from 241,411 in 2008 to 23,175 in 2018, before climbing slightly to 26,985 in 2019 and 32,063 in 2020.
“At this point it’s hard to make an association between the change in abortion’s legal status in Korea and in the rates of incidence,” Byoun Soo-jung, a population policy researcher at KIHASA, told reporters in a closed-door briefing. She said the slim increase seen from 2019 to 2020 was not statistically significant.
Ministry of Health and Welfare’s director of childbirth policy, Choi Young-jun, said, “Until the end of 2020 abortion was punishable by law. The data we have now likely does not reflect the changing legal landscape.”
“I wanted to say “keep women out of the work force” but that seemed kind of sexist.”
That is the Genie which won’t go back into the bottle
Desperate times call for desperate measures
Nobody wants to confront the REAL reason: women losing interest in marriage and children, preferring instead to spend their youthful years partying.
Focusing on birth control is like focusing on gun control: we must instead look at human motivations
Then they wonder when the party's over, why all the good ones are already taken.
Do girls take Home Ec in school?
South Korea is suffering from this, but so are many lands, such as Japan and Israel. Even the USA. No kids, no nation. Japan, South Korea, will no longer exist. This can happen to Russia and China too. In California our town just closed two schools due to a lack of students and those that are open must teach in Spanish because the students speak no English.
When I grew up, women were either school teachers (mainly lower grades), or secretaries*. Beyond that, they would stay home during the day, either with or without kids, and there wasn’t much point to staying home without kids.
Go back to that day, and you get kids, again. Stay as we are with ‘liberated’ women, and society crumbles.
Tough choices ahead...
*obviously there were also exceptions
Preferential school admissions and hiring quotas for 2nd children would cost nothing up front. Question is political feasibility.
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