Korea continues to suffer from a dropping birth rate


Article: 8.6 newborns for every 1,000 person... lowest in history 'country of low birthrate'

Source: Yonhap News via Naver

1. [+6,247, -276] I want to have a lot of kids when I get married too but... I'm not in the financial situation to do that... Prices go up while my paycheck stays the same.

2. [+5,480, -211] It costs so much to raise a child, who would want one at the moment...

3. [+4,752, -162] Really looking forward to how our country will look in 20 years..

4. [+3,834, -109] Makes me scared for the future;;

5. [+1,636, -82] If you're going to pass down poverty, might as well not have any kids at all. I don't want to have my kids born into a world already difficult to live in.

6. [+1,464, -42] As a father, I feel like programs like Superman should be taken off TV. They're not realistic at all. To raise kids like that, you need to make more than $20,000 a month. It plants unrealistic ideas when in reality, we're all looking for the cheapest diapers and milk formula because that's all we can afford.

7. [+1,397, -53] Further proof how difficult of a country Korea is to live in

8. [+1,293, -67] It costs $300,000 to even send a kid to college... would you want to have a kid still?

9. [+765, -21] Not going to want to give birth until the environment is appropriate for it ㅋㅋ

10. [+689, -25] What do I have to trust in the country to raise a child in such an environment?

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