Posted on 02/06/2026 7:25:34 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
South Korea’s stubbornly low birth rate could force dozens of universities to shutter in the coming years, experts say, as the country faces record-low enrollment at elementary schools.
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South Korea looks good from the outside, but if you are born as a middle class regular person, it’s a hyper competitive hellscape squid-game. A society maniacally obsessed with status, competition, achievement and materialism.
So it's like USA but times 100.
Although we are getting there. It's just taking us longer.
Great show, BTW.
No children, no future.
South Korea has one of the lowest fertility rates in the world at 0.75 compared to 2.1 for minimum population replacement. Only Hong Kong at 0.74, and Macau at 0.69 beat out Korea for last place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_fertility_rate
Mapped: Where Birth Rates Are Highest in the U.S.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-birth-rates-highest-in-usa/
compulsory; contraception and or murder.
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