>The East Asian country is facing aging population and a decline in childbirths because many young people are distancing themselves from marriage, and having children due to the lack of decent job opportunities, high home prices, and heavy private education fees. (...)

>Rapid aging and the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic also pushed up the number of deaths to a record high in August.

That's crumby. Population collapse. Can they recover?

Has anyone seen any long term population projections for South Korea recently? I wonder what they will be looking at in 10/20/30 years due to the current trends.

There would need to be a culture shift to becoming somewhere more welcoming to foreigners. Don't get me wrong I had great experiences in South Korea with the younger generation but anyone in their 40s upwards was definitely a mixed bag.

I wouldn't call it hostile but in the workplace it can be difficult to adjust to the work culture there. If they can enact policies around working hours, working rights, health and safety etc they may be able to attract more immigrants to ease the population decline.

They're also suffering similar social financial issues that we're seeing in the west, so that's exacerbating the problem.

Yeah, I saw the YouTube video and it was the woman introducing her black bf to her mom. And her mom was clearly upset, when her bf was being nice and wholesome.

How much South Korea is open for immigrants?

The population of United States is still growing simply because of immigrants and that's the only way for the matured countries to keep the population.

Some Asian countries like Singapore is pretty much immigrant-friendly.

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EDIT: I just checked some stats, and South Korea and Japan are actually among the top countries to accept immigrants, around half of United States. WTF.

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Lol. As if being nice and wholesome is enough. I know a Chinese guy who wanted to marry his Korean girlfriend who was a dentist. Her dad didn't think his career was worthy enough because he made less than her. One of the reasons why he ended up going to dentistry school too.

How many people are willing to learn Korean or Japanese? English is one of the official languages of Singapore.

And they can speak in Mandarin or Malay. I guess that's why they're a successful country despite the smaller soil.

If they’re anything like Japan they’re only “friendly” to highly skilled immigrants or poor exploitable immigrants.

They'll hire you but there's very little vertical growth if you're a gaijin. If you're content with having an unbreakable glass ceiling over your career it's not that bad of a country to live in.

Finally! we've gotten people to stop having children. It's something that only the super rich will be allowed to do!

Tenured so I got lucky.

This is like the standard Reddit response to everything, isn't it? Under every news post you have to figure out how to shoehorn any mention of the "super rich" into your comment for easy karma.

This shit's getting old.

>ept immigran

no way, that can be true. I always thought these 2 were very protective of their culture and didn't really accept permanent immigration. For work, I have heard they accept immigrants but not permanent living and citizenship.

Yeah, you're right! Let's just talk about house of dragons of whatever tv show you find more important in your life than how our society cheapens humans lives.

"God, I don't understand why the peasants spend so much time complaining about the nobles. They too can have cake."

this article has nothing to do with rich people. doesn't mention them at all. the issue of population decline is not an issue that can be reduced to "billionaire bad". trying to reduce every world issue to a simple "fuck rich people" statement is absolutely worthless. it doesn't highlight any real source of the problem nor does it solve anything. it's just an easy trope you can whip out for social credit.

you're like a vegan who has to make every conversation about their cruelty free turtleneck sweaters.

oh yeah, and rich people tend have way fewer children than poor people across the board, anyway. so not only was your original comment a non sequitur, it was just wrong.

but keep trying to farm that easy karma, tho. i believe in you. make sure to call me a bootlicker or a fascist or something so you won't have to actually consider anything i say :)

Korea issues a bunch of work visas to migrant workers from poorer Asian countries and then generally traps them in exploitative situations while having an extremely high barrier to permanent residency or citizenship. Xenophobia is also extremely common and immigrants are generally supported poorly by any government institutions, even if married to Korean nationals or having children with Korean citizenship.

You can't act like people's lives are fully and deeply shaped by wealth inequality and the state of the economy. It's why when there's economic turmoil, the birth rate drops for example, which is related to this article.

the birth rate drops for everybody. which brings me back to your bizarre comment about rich people outbreeding the poors.

what a worthless comment you've made. there's so much snootiness and so many presumptions packed into it that it can only have been made to mine that sweet sweet karma. i tip my fedora to you for a job well done.

Projected to be half the population by 2100.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/south-korea-population

The North shall rise again. Winter is coming