>For Koreans, the single largest cost for a child goes on education expenses beyond regular public schooling. In 2022, the Chosun Ilbo pointed out, Koreans spent KRW26 trillion (€17.94 billion) on private cram schools for their children, a figure that works out as KRW524,000 (€361.53) each month per child.
Add in east Asian working culture, an already exorbitant cost of living and rampant misogyny and it’s not very surprising why so few couples are choosing to have children.
Birth….its the birth rate, not fertility rate. Fertility is how many females are able to give birth.
And it inversely correlates very well with ‘cost of rising a child’…
not only costs, there are no parks for kids to play.. Housing complexes with 2000+ apartments will just have two slides, one small sand pit etc..
and the way Korean moms dress up their kids is horrible.. Kids are pretty by themselves why apply makeup to babies? This must be illegal and IMO its border line child abuse..
and the bullying in schools, especially if the kid is brown or black… too much & unnecessary focus on performance.. Korea is F***ed up place to raise kids..
I think its illegal to look at a woman over there.
This is not beautiful data. You don’t connect data with lines unless you calculate approximately how data depends on whatever you throw on your x-axis and then you don’t connect data points, but draw the curve irrespective of data. Though I don’t think it makes sense to do it in this case. A graph is just not a good way to present this data.
You should also emphasize data points. It’s not the same if there are each year or each decade.
The ~~Declining~~ **Plummeting** Fertility Rate of South Korea
so the shift happened about 40 years ago, and then the people just ignored the problems
One day we’ll realise that the value to humanity for having children massively outweighs a career. It shouldn’t be a binary choice.
This is not a South Korean issue. It is not even a developed country issue.
This is a global issue, as virtually all high and middle income countries, even the religious ones, as seeing precipitous drops on fertility rates.
No government anywhere has been able to figure out a way to effectively revert this trend.
![[OC] The Declining Fertility Rate of South Korea](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/rd3fwftjplgd1-1920x1024.png)
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More expensive real estate and even more work. See what happens.
Send Bronn, 10 good men, and climbing spikes.
Just few more years and we will see a new wave of immigration to this country on a whole new level or see them become the next Japan.
When you put rats in cages they stop reproducing too.
We packed the entire world into a few cities in apartments the size of shoe boxes. “Why aren’t people having kids?”.
South Korea is the most expensive place in the world to raise a child to 18. [It costs $271,000 per child](https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.dw.com/en/south-korea-most-expensive-country-in-world-to-raise-children/a-65669257). The absolutely insane Korean education system bears a big part of the blame:
>For Koreans, the single largest cost for a child goes on education expenses beyond regular public schooling. In 2022, the Chosun Ilbo pointed out, Koreans spent KRW26 trillion (€17.94 billion) on private cram schools for their children, a figure that works out as KRW524,000 (€361.53) each month per child.
Add in east Asian working culture, an already exorbitant cost of living and rampant misogyny and it’s not very surprising why so few couples are choosing to have children.
Birth….its the birth rate, not fertility rate. Fertility is how many females are able to give birth.
And it inversely correlates very well with ‘cost of rising a child’…
not only costs, there are no parks for kids to play.. Housing complexes with 2000+ apartments will just have two slides, one small sand pit etc..
and the way Korean moms dress up their kids is horrible.. Kids are pretty by themselves why apply makeup to babies? This must be illegal and IMO its border line child abuse..
and the bullying in schools, especially if the kid is brown or black… too much & unnecessary focus on performance.. Korea is F***ed up place to raise kids..
I think its illegal to look at a woman over there.
This is not beautiful data. You don’t connect data with lines unless you calculate approximately how data depends on whatever you throw on your x-axis and then you don’t connect data points, but draw the curve irrespective of data. Though I don’t think it makes sense to do it in this case. A graph is just not a good way to present this data.
You should also emphasize data points. It’s not the same if there are each year or each decade.
The ~~Declining~~ **Plummeting** Fertility Rate of South Korea
so the shift happened about 40 years ago, and then the people just ignored the problems
One day we’ll realise that the value to humanity for having children massively outweighs a career. It shouldn’t be a binary choice.
This is not a South Korean issue. It is not even a developed country issue.
This is a global issue, as virtually all high and middle income countries, even the religious ones, as seeing precipitous drops on fertility rates.
No government anywhere has been able to figure out a way to effectively revert this trend.