[Right_Wing_Madman]

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

Nobody in Seoul wants to confront the real reason for its collapsed birth rate: the pill and easy access to abortions up to birth.

At this point, Koreans will probably have better long-term survival prospects if the North successfully invades the South.

[escapefromboston]

Ban contraception and abortions.

[yuleeyahoo]

The future belongs to whoever shows up.

[aquila48]

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.”

[BobL]

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

[Zhang Fei]

Preferential school admissions and hiring quotas for 2nd children would cost nothing up front. Question is political feasibility.

[Lichgod]

This report just proves that Laz has never been to South Korea.

(Heads for the door.)

[Does so]

“President Yoon Suk-yeol ordered his officials to begin a “complete review” of all federal policies to encourage Koreans to have children on Friday,”
.

Having children on a Friday is setting a very narrow standard.

;)

[who_would_fardels_bear]

My understanding is that K-Pop stars are under supreme control in order to advance their careers.

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.

[daniel1212]

Simple: ban contraception and abortion, punish fornication and promote marriage for life.

[9YearLurker]

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/