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SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Yonhap) -- South Korea continued to experience a natural decline in it population in November as deaths continued to outnumber births, data showed Wednesday.

A total of 17,531 babies were born in November, down 7.6 percent from a year earlier, according to the data from Statistics Korea.

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[-] Merlin@lemm.ee 32 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I remember watching a video not long ago about this girl in South Korea who went to uni, couldn’t find a job in her area. Then started doing web development and also had to work in a convenience store and could barely survive.

I know there’s a lot of people who never wanted to have kids to begin with and that pop decline is a worldwide phenomenon right now. However, even if someone wanted to have kids, how the heck can you do it if you can barely survive even with 2 jobs?

[-] FunkyMonk@kbin.social 11 points 8 months ago

Thats quitter talk, how are you going to have your labor extracted by the Chaebol and make society proud if you don't live up to your parents expeecations they heaped on you since you existed?

[-] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 6 points 8 months ago

There's a reason almost every K-drama has a "chaebol heir"-type character as part of the main cast/main couple. S. Korea just refuses to acknowledge that it has a class/wealth inequality problem that is leading to many of their current social issues.

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