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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This report just proves that Laz has never been to South Korea.
(Heads for the door.)
“...you need to make sure your child can speak Spanish.”
—BHO
Is the 19th Amendment vulnerable now that women have the vote?
“President Yoon Suk-yeol ordered his officials to begin a “complete review” of all federal policies to encourage Koreans to have children on Friday,”
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Having children on a Friday is setting a very narrow standard.
;)
When K-Pop stars age out, they should be required to mate, even though the male K-Pop stars appear more likely to want to do it with other male K-Pop stars.
Simple: ban contraception and abortion, punish fornication and promote marriage for life.
Yep, women are to be silent in the church, and be instructed at home by their husbands.
Those who could not, the church, not a government, was to take care of them, especially the widows
“As in all the churches of the saints, the women are to keep silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak, but are to subject themselves, just as the Law also says. But if they desire to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in church.”(1 Corinthians 14:33b-35 LSB)
Studies show they're not even having sex to start with.
The post modern industrialized society is an empty offer to young people. They don't want to live in a box of concrete and steel, working insane hours doing marginal things, separated from their extended families. They don't want to bring children into it either.
It's not just Korea, it's all modernized countries.
See John Calhoun's "Mouse Utopia" / "Behavioral Sink" experiments:
https://www.iflscience.com/universe-25-the-mouse-utopia-experiment-that-turned-into-an-apocalypse-60407
The dynamic in Korea is very different from the rest of the developed nations:
https://thediplomat.com/2016/08/the-struggles-of-south-koreas-working-women/
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