South Korea on brink of ‘extinction’ unless embraces immigration, says minister

Yahoo! ^ | 12/7/23 | Nicola Smith

[DallasBiff]

South Korea is facing “extinction” and needs to embrace immigration to stave off its “demographic catastrophe”, the country’s justice minister has warned.

“When it comes to immigration policies, we have passed the stage of deliberating whether to implement them or not. Because if we don’t, we cannot escape the fate of extinction due to the demographic catastrophe,” Han Dong-hoon, told a parliamentary meeting in Seoul, reported the Korea Times.

[Chickensoup]

They can’t have babies?

[Texan5]

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...

[Capt_Hank]

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

[Boomer]

“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.

[Boomer]

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.

[Boomer]

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.

[CatHerd]

I was thinking the same ...

[SauronOfMordor]

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

[Right_Wing_Madman]

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.

[RedMonqey]

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

[Clemenza]

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

[RedMonqey]

Thanks, didn’t know that

[nickcarraway]

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