Falling birthrate in Korea

Birthrate is decreasing and it is one of social problems in almost all advanced countries. Our society also has the same problem. According to survey, the average birthrate in Korea was 1.22 last year. So many experts are worried about this social phenomenon.

One certain reason decreasing birthrate is a financial problem. Unemployment crisis make people poor, even though people find a job, they have to delay marriage and childbirth because of high cost of living and raising children. Increasing divorce rate of newly married couple is another reason of low birthrate, because they would divorce if they felt their husband and wife aren’t the right person and some of them think that no having baby makes them decide to divorce. It is said that newly married couples even postpone registration of marriage for the same reason.

 Labor is one of important factors to decide national competitiveness, so low birthrate causes low economic growth. And our society becomes the aging society rapidly aging society. The government already knew this social change and what problem happens in the future. So the government is trying to increase birthrate but it seems that their policies don’t work well so far. One of policies is financial benefit but people say it isn’t really helpful.

 The government needs to benchmark a successful case of other countries and provide more practical policy to increase birthrate. At the same time, people must realize the importance of the problem. And it might be difficult to be solved by the government only.