Why South Korea is Literally Going Extinct

Babies, unfortunately, do not provide short-term benefits for Samsung shareholders

It's quite amazing how they were able to fit two dystopias in one peninsula.

State sponsored dating app ✅ Tax breaks for having a kid ✅ Encourage immigration✅ Lower work week hours w/ enforcement❌❌❌❌❌❌

You forgot to mention that South Korea is also pretty much leading suicidal rates in the "developed" world.

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It’s almost like when you make living standards worse for each successive generation, people lose interest in becoming parents.

As a South Korean living in Seoul, there are too many reasons for this crisis. The competitive nature of Korean society, the conflict of men and women, an almost mad way of comparing each other and never finding peace, and so on. The accumulation of dozens of problems created a society where people don’t want to get married and have children. And the most horrifying thing is that people don’t even care and are even ridiculing their own country for this. In the internet there are so many comments that say “it’s still higher than 0.6? lol let’s keep it up until it’s 0.1 boys“

You work as a Samsung drone for 60 hours a week, then return to a tiny hole of an apartment to watch K-pop while slurping down cheap noodles. And then the government calls you up and asks you why you don't have 2.1 children yet.

Government: "Work long hours with low pay and then have a family of five in a two-room apartment with no garden or personal space, please." Young South Koreans: "How about no?"

Thanos: "I will decrease the population by half" South Korea: "No, I'll do it myself"

I was a teacher at a private English academy for five years. It was often said amongst the staff that we needed to be understanding and compassionate toward our students because for many of them, we see them more than their parents do.

Imagine paying all that money for a house and then 30 years later the value of your house crashes because nobodies around to buy it.

In 200 years, historians will be baffling how Koreans became prosperous, crushed the price of a TV by 1500% and then suddenly and mysteriously vanished

How did the Korean Peninsula manage to have two of the worst communist AND capitalist dystopias out there

I find it interesting that every time someone on YouTube makes a video about South Korea and it's fertility rate, they never mention the fact that in South Korea it's perfectly legal to declare large areas of the local community "Child Free Zones" where you are not allowed to bring children into this designated area. There's the obvious places like cafes and restaurants, but these Child Free Zones can also apply to government buildings. The end result is that a lot of women who do manage to have children often feel trapped in their home, because they are not allowed to take their child out anywhere.

World leaders: "Why aren't people having kids?" Literally the world: " Make having children affordable, and make a world we would want to bring life into"

As a South Korean, I can confirm our society is very competitive. However, it’s not just to get into the chaebols; most parents think doctors are the best job since they pay very well. As a result, the race for medical school is so high that getting into them is deemed harder than getting into the SKY universities. I would also like to add as a high school student that our private education is very fierce. Last year, after school ended at 4:30, I would immediately go to private academies, and move between them until midnight(the government bans academies to teach over 10pm, but few actually follow). It was very tiring😢

Kim Jong Un: "I will destroy your population" South Korea: "No, I'll do it myself"

It's crazy to ask people who have no free time or money to give up their free time and money to have kids.

Why would they have children if it costs $260k to raise one, you can pay off half your house with that or buy a frickin Ferrari.