Seoul, South Korea CNN —South Korea’s leader on Thursday said he plans to create a new government ministry to tackle the “national emergency” of the country’s infamously low birth rate as it grapples with a deepening demographic crisis.
In a televised address, President Yoon Suk Yeol said he would ask for parliament’s cooperation to establish the Ministry of Low Birth Rate Counter-planning.
“We will mobilize all of the nation’s capabilities to overcome the low birth rate, which can be considered a national emergency,” he said.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol at a press conference in Seoul, South Korea, on, May 9, 2024.
Countries like South Korea, Japan and China, however, have shied away from mass immigration to tackle the decline in their working age populations.
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