Comments by "HKim0072" (@HKim0072) on "Babybox : S. Korea's Paradox of Low Birth rate | Undercover Korea" video.

  1. The title is weird. The baby box is dealing with <0.01% of the births in Korea. Low fertility rate is all about economics. Unwanted pregnancies is a totally different issue.
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  2. I think you are misinterpreting the video. Babies can be easily registered in Korea, but the parent (mother) doesn't want the social stigma attached to having a kid that young. The opposite is true. It's very hard to "unregister" a kid.
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  3.  @takahiro5528  It's total apples vs oranges. They aren't connected at all. Abortions were illegal back when this was filmed. It's conflating two subject matters that shouldn't be compared and contrasted.
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  4. There are 2 important timelines that the TV show didn't address. 2012: There was a law implemented that you can't have a baby anonymously. A baby has a right to know its lineage. Ironically, this was passed because of the 200K international adoptions from Korea. It's not that kids weren't abandoned in the past. It was easier. The number of babies dropped off at these baby boxes was 35 in 2011, and increased sharply to 79 in 2012 and 252 in 2013 2019: Even though abortion was "available", it was still illegal. Still murky, but you can't be charged with a crime anymore. In April 2019, abortion was technically legalized in Korea as the Constitutional Court concluded that banning abortion in the early stages of pregnancy was a violation of the right to self-determination. The court viewed that abortion before the 22nd week of pregnancy should be decriminalized, saying that a woman's right to self-determination outweighs a fetus' right to life. Baby box stats from 2022: According to the Seoul Institute, Sunday, a total of 106 babies were dropped off at baby boxes last year, down from 217 in 2018.
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  5. IMO, it's going to be a tough life with (1) the mother raises the kid or (2) the kid goes to an orphanage. I think the program is overstating the choice that needs to be made. It's been 14 years since the baby box started. Would love to see some statistics ie grades etc on the kids that young mothers took back vs kids that went to orphanages. Basic stats from 2019: According to the church, 1,538 babies have arrived through the baby box and received protection since 2009. Among them, 161 went back to their birth parents. (That's a big enough sample size to draw "some" conclusions.)
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  6. @@Repeuh Disagree. The trendline in international adoptions had been going lower before the 2012 law.
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  7. @@Repeuh Politely, you have zero clue how to analyze data. No one looks at just a 1 year trend. Obviously, you have no idea that it started failing (again) in the mid-2000s.
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  8.  @kimckawa  200K+ is the total cumulative number from 1950s onward. International adoptions are legal, but the criteria is pretty stringent. A couple hundred a year now down from 9K per year at its peak (mid-1980s).
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  9. @@Repeuh JFC. That's what a trendline is.
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