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Only half of South Koreans willing to marry; even less want kids
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Policy makers: "Why won't they have babies?!? We need more babies the whole system will collapse! We must urgently do something! But what? What ever should we do??? We've tried EVERYTHING! We even give them straight cash if they have a kid! This is the greatest mystery of our time!"
The population in nearly perfect unanimous voice: "Work life balance is shit and we can't afford to have kids, neither time wise nor monetarily"
Policy makers: "Such an enigma, truly so mysterious, woe is us, evil evil selfish young people that don't have kids!"
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korea has one of the highest suicide rates in the world. It's not worth to bring a soul to experience this misery we can hardly endure.
Highest among prosperous nations sure, but if we look to the whole world Korea does not have close to the highest rates of suicide.
Policy makers: .... come on! .... we need your children to replace you and your slave wages to keep our investors wealthy.