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South Korea on brink of ‘extinction’ unless embraces immigration, says minister
Yahoo! ^ | 12/7/23 | Nicola Smith

Posted on 12/18/2023 11:37:14 AM PST by DallasBiff

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To: DallasBiff

They can’t have babies?


41 posted on 12/18/2023 2:26:28 PM PST by Chickensoup
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To: DallasBiff

I’m no expert on the matter-but if the country I lived in shared a border with a hostile nation with a lunatic in charge of it-one who threatened to nuke my country on pretty much a daily basis-I would not be terribly enthusiastic about marrying and/or having some kids, either...


42 posted on 12/18/2023 2:27:11 PM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Track9

Damn it, my first drink before dinner is now all over me, from laughing. Killer of a Namn.


43 posted on 12/18/2023 2:35:42 PM PST by Capt_Hank (btu's...kcal's...to kJ's, but my activation energy is still high.)
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To: CatHerd
“Experts say the reasons for these demographic shifts across the region include demanding work cultures, stagnating wages, rising costs of living, changing attitudes toward marriage and gender equality, and rising disillusionment among younger generations.”

Except for the work culture with the two youngest gens, this is what is happening in the USA today.

44 posted on 12/18/2023 3:30:51 PM PST by Boomer (The Long Winter is coming...)
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To: Dalberg-Acton
Have they asked Laz to father a few thousand Korean kiddos?

A magazine, some dry ice, a cooler, and a cup should take care of a few hundred little Laz's.

45 posted on 12/18/2023 3:33:49 PM PST by Boomer (The Long Winter is coming...)
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To: Organic Panic
When just about any politician or bureaucrat says “immigration” they mean turd world violent Muslims and Africans to destroy the current culture and society. I doubt this guy wants Filipinos, Chinese, and Bangladeshis.

Globalists and Islam is the real and actual plague of our time.

46 posted on 12/18/2023 3:35:24 PM PST by Boomer (The Long Winter is coming...)
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To: Boomer

I was thinking the same ...


47 posted on 12/18/2023 3:56:35 PM PST by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

It is definitely the job of government to REFRAIN from creating negative incentives.


48 posted on 12/18/2023 3:57:47 PM PST by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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To: RedMonqey
Better they revamp their tax code to encourage more ethnic Koreans to have babies... You’re smart, Korea! Learn from the failures of the West. Be more like Japan!!!

Japan is hardly a model of fertility. Japan faces a population collapse almost as bad as Korea.

Also, recent attempts to monetize incentives for childbirth have failed in South Korea, Japan, Singapore, and Estonia.

Most likely, the only way to solve the productivity problem is to ban the pill and most forms of abortion, but there is no political will for this in most countries. There is nothing that resembles a pro-life movement in Japan and Korea.

Ironically, the one country that might be able to pull it off is China, whose one-party state can order these measures by decree.

49 posted on 12/18/2023 5:11:28 PM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

By Japan I meant Japan doesn’t have an open door immigration policy and it didn’t know that s.korea already tried tweaking their tax codes.
How’d Hungary do with It’s child policy?
Could be like the US and it’s dive into population deficit. Too many forego marriage and children because it’s just not worth the hassle with feminism and just plain selfishness and immaturity among young people that they don’t know how to be good parents.

I have no answers for this


50 posted on 12/18/2023 6:00:42 PM PST by RedMonqey ("A republic, if you can keep it" Benjam Franklin.)
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To: RedMonqey

Hungary failed, as has France with its pro-natalist policies.


51 posted on 12/18/2023 6:06:17 PM PST by Clemenza
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To: Clemenza

Thanks, didn’t know that


52 posted on 12/18/2023 6:07:36 PM PST by RedMonqey ("A republic, if you can keep it" Benjam Franklin.)
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To: DallasBiff

South Korea has one of the two highest suicide rates of countries that aren’t tiny.


53 posted on 01/01/2024 6:27:15 PM PST by nickcarraway
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