Comments by "kristine Sharp" (@kristinesharp6286) on "How South Korea Is Running Out of Children" video.

Women abort cause their child will have a hard time finding a job once grown and have a hard time finding a spouse and their own work may be limited being single or divorced. Until recently and still to a degree you are asked personal questions on job interviews and they will check your family registry. You are considered lacking in connections and not be chosen. That isn’t right. That is also pressure. And it should never be pressure.
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Actually they would have no responsibilities to in-laws. The fact is before abortion legal there were 300K a year. Because of that ridiculous family registry system allowing coparenting between never married couples with each also able to realistically partner and have more children treating all kids as their kids is not the case at the moment. In the US father or mother can raise a baby born while teens even out of wedlock with lots or limited involvement of other party and still partner and have more kids, attend college, become employed, etc…
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I think Korea needs to get its seniors out of their 32P apartments and into 18P apartments so couples with a child can move into the 32P apartments from the 10P studio and have a baby. I think Korea needs to embrace remote working from home. Hello COVID. The country has internet. I think people need to come home from school at 4:30 and work at 6. No mandatory study after school or afterwork noraebang. If there is more work to do the company did not hire enough people. Why in a home with 1-2 kids can students not study at home? I think the bigger companies need to hire back women who were out of the workforce 5 years. I think day care needs to accept infants under 8 months, those are rare and because of delay in having kids for 2 generations grandma isn’t 40’s and 50’s anymore. If those turning 25 marry for the next 10 years 80% of those couples opt to try for 2, it will outpace the number of deaths. The parent age people today did not grow up seeing parents cause they were working late into the night and the students were studying late into the night. No one knows what family looks like. And the brightest leave the country for school and stay away when it’s time to work. That is an addition problem to the birth rate. The real problem is no one can have several children. That is why people can chose zero children in the west. The multicultural families are the ones having 2 and more but given prejudice they will leave the country so their numbers are not practical.
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But you would have a spouse most likely. The poverty line will always exist. It’s simply the lowest income not having much to do with how much it costs to live.
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@Arcessitor you mean fathering a child outside of marriage? No it’s fine for a woman to raise the baby she gives birth to.
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@deeb.9250 the Netherlands does not have a replacement birth rate either. But they have a number of foreign born residents. It is great the subsidize all parents. Korea and Japan and China seem to shun foreign residents. Philippines you have religion, Catholicism and Islam. Both faiths welcome children.
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The government was coming out of occupation and active war, they are at a ceasefire not peace treaty. They basically had a series of leaders, some of whom were dictators who decided the public needed to make their lives easier instead of the gov adjusting to the public. If you insist on a baby boom or drastic reduction in births you will get short term prosperity. But a further generation will suffer. No country should encourage (not require) less than 2 or more than 4 and only do so for 10 years. I adopted from China and when looking at Russia and China both of them had heavy family planning policies. One wanted 5 for the army. One wanted only 1 child, even less. Leaving millions of men with no partners, never a good idea. Both countries had ridiculous numbers of children in state care sending abroad for adoption. The government should not be forcing people to not have kids or have more kids. I understand there are hard times like war, population explosion and implosion. But again 2-4 kids and just encourage it. 2.1 is replacement. World fertility is 2.4. People should have as many as they want.
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@kpjo4 I watch a lot of Korean tv. The elderly seem to the ones working the fields and the markets. The generation coming up won’t be doing that work will they. It used to be the parents put all their money into their kid or kids. Then the oldest son would pay all the bills after retirement which is still somewhat young age. They had people stop at 1. No daughter, a forced retirement and only recent retirement saving system means a lot of seniors very poor. Even if seniors saved half with the irrational growth they would not have enough money.
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50 years will not set the next several centuries of pattern of family life.
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The country only reached 50 million cause people live to 80 not 60. What happens in 1990 isn’t what is going to happen in 2040.
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A main problem with housing is people think they need hundreds of thousands to get into the market. Switching to down payment and loan for 30 years isn’t a bad idea.
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The people who hire at companies don’t watch Kdrama’s.
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All these articles are reinforcing the idea that you can not and should not afford to have children. People were convinced to have 1-2 for decades for 2 reasons. Patriotism and perceived prosperity. There are hundreds of thousands of poor seniors who are in awful poverty who believed that. Patriotism mattered to people who lived under occupation and survived the dangerous years of the Korean War. Which has not ended. Korea expects their men to spend 2-3 years in military service since 1951. That is years of economic activity out the window. If you have 1-2 kids and were sterilized you were a patriot. You also got priority in housing for newly built apartments. The seniors started living longer. The only reason not a problem to have less babies short term. The younger generation has 20 pairs of shoes, their grandparents 1-3. Their grandparents had siblings. They have spare rooms for clothing storage. Todays youth don’t have memory of occupation or the fighting years of the Korean War. Todays generation will inherit 2 sets of grandparents apartments and their own parents. Everyone being concentrated in one area of the country is the only thing holding up prices. New apartments are not palatial. They are tiny. They built the economy around not having any or maybe 1. The real problem is by the time a person can marry after college, after military and far along in work they are not able to have as many as they want or any at all. You just can’t start in your 30’s. So people who want are aged out.
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