Yoon declares 'demographic national emergency,' vows all-out efforts to tackle low birthrate (www.koreatimes.co.kr)

submitted 2 years ago by plinky@hexbear.net to c/news@hexbear.net

19 comments fedilink hide all child comments

hahaha

The government has tried various incentives to help entice families to have children over the past decade, but a number of factors, including expensive housing prices, education costs and long working hours, have made young people reluctant to start families and have babies.

Yoon outlined three main areas focused on balancing work and life, improving child care and providing better housing to address the complex issues.

The measures include increasing parental leave allowances and extending leave for fathers, aiming to raise the usage rate of paternity leave from the current 6.8 percent to 50 percent during Yoon's term.

They also include implementing flexible work hours, extending the age limit for reduced working hours for parents of young children and providing subsidies for employers who hire temporary replacements for employees on parental leave.

Imagine doing capitalism so well you have to revert to socdemery

top 19 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago

Holy shit just don't work your people to death and they'll find time to fuck it is LITERALLY THAT EASY

[-] huf@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

they even have a korea next door they could copy policies from...

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

"Mom can we have Korea?"

"We have Korea at home."

The Korea at home:

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

porky-scared-flipped : "What do you MEAN humans aren't livestock? What kind of decadent attitude is this? I just want to toughen humanity up, I'm SAVING us from DECADENCE! Weak men create hard times you know!"

[-] Barx@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago

They'll try anything except change the balance of income vs. debt vs. working tons of hours so that people can live comfortably and take care of kids.

[-] FishLake@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 2 years ago

Or accepting more than like five immigrants.

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

Giving parental leave and increasing child care is about hours tbh. Doesn't fix income problem though

[-] RedWizard@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

Heh this is cute but my understanding is the other half of the issue is the shit male culture. Lots of misogyny.

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago

This is not socdemmery, at least in its good sense (no labor unionism encouraging this, it seems)

This is the desperate cry of rightists, at tumblin' birth rates...

[-] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago

Soon to be the-doohickey

[-] fubarx@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 years ago

A lot of the countries with birth-rates below replacement rates have known about this since the 1980s. They're just starting to panic because their tax authorities are showing them the ugly, Excel forecast charts. They could have averted all this back then, but chose to ignore the warning signs.

Now, the only option is to open up to foreign immigration, or societally encourage Senicide (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senicide) to reduce demand 🤮

Soon, those options will be gone too. The politicians will be stuck between domestic xenophobia and that young, productive immigrants will have better options.

[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

Senicide

Everyone go watch Plan 75

[-] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

Real Logan's Run hours

[-] someone@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

I really, really hate doing "boomer generalization". No generational war, no war but the class war. There's plenty of working-class boomers out there who have been fucked over just as bad as the rest of society.

But I think it's pretty clear by now that boomers in decision-making roles have generally put zero thought into succession planning. Both on an individual basis, and on a society-wide basis. No training of their own replacements, no thought given to demographic trends that would result from their decisions, just total denial of their own mortality.

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

busting raw to uphold Hell Joseon

[-] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

Went to the RoK a month ago and stayed for a week. Received a few comments from people at the university I visited that they could not believe that I was the same age as a bunch of them and had 2 kids. They all said that they would love to have children one day, but it took so much work to get to someplace comfortable that they could not imagine starting over after having a child. Also, Hell Joeseon has a serious problem with male chauvinism, to the point where women complain about it if you are a foreigner and there aren't korean men nearby.

[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Hell Joeseon

Y'know, when you pronounce it with enough of an American accent...

hunter

caption

Jōe's sŏn

[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

"We had a year where the population wasn't going up... this is a calamity!"

improve-society "living wage pls"

[-] Gay_Tomato@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

yamagami Sequel when?

this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2024

50 points (100.0% liked)

news

24584 readers

588 users here now

Welcome to c/news! We aim to foster a book-club type environment for discussion and critical analysis of the news. Our policy objectives are:

To learn about and discuss meaningful news, analysis and perspectives from around the world, with a focus on news outside the Anglosphere and beyond what is normally seen in corporate media (e.g. anti-imperialist, anti-Zionist, Marxist, Indigenous, LGBTQ, people of colour).
To encourage community members to contribute commentary and for others to thoughtfully engage with this material.
To support healthy and good faith discussion as comrades, sharpening our analytical skills and helping one another better understand geopolitics.

We ask community members to appreciate the uncertainty inherent in critical analysis of current events, the need to constantly learn, and take part in the community with humility. None of us are the One True Leftist, not even you, the reader.

Newcomm and Newsmega Rules:

The Hexbear Code of Conduct and Terms of Service apply here.

Link titles: Please use informative link titles. Overly editorialized titles, particularly if they link to opinion pieces, may get your post removed.
Content warnings: Posts on the newscomm and top-level replies on the newsmega should use content warnings appropriately. Please be thoughtful about wording and triggers when describing awful things in post titles.
Fake news: No fake news posts ever, including April 1st. Deliberate fake news posting is a bannable offense. If you mistakenly post fake news the mod team may ask you to delete/modify the post or we may delete it ourselves.
Link sources: All posts must include a link to their source. Screenshots are fine IF you include the link in the post body. If you are citing a Twitter post as news, please include the Xcancel.com (or another Nitter instance) or at least strip out identifier information from the twitter link. There is also a Firefox extension that can redirect Twitter links to a Nitter instance, such as Libredirect or archive them as you would any other reactionary source.
Archive sites: We highly encourage use of non-paywalled archive sites (i.e. archive.is, web.archive.org, ghostarchive.org) so that links are widely accessible to the community and so that reactionary sources don’t derive data/ad revenue from Hexbear users. If you see a link without an archive link, please archive it yourself and add it to the thread, ask the OP to fix it, or report to mods. Including text of articles in threads is welcome.
Low effort material: Avoid memes/jokes/shitposts in newscomm posts and top-level replies to the newsmega. This kind of content is OK in post replies and in newsmega sub-threads. We encourage the community to balance their contribution of low effort material with effort posts, links to real news/analysis, and meaningful engagement with material posted in the community.
American politics: Discussion and effort posts on the (potential) material impacts of American electoral politics is welcome, but the never-ending circus of American Politics© Brought to You by Mountain Dew™ is not welcome. This refers to polling, pundit reactions, electoral horse races, rumors of who might run, etc.
Electoralism: Please try to avoid struggle sessions about the value of voting/taking part in the electoral system in the West. c/electoralism is right over there.
AI Slop: Don't post AI generated content. Posts about AI race/chip wars/data centers are fine.

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

Alaskaball@hexbear.net

carpoftruth@hexbear.net

Breath_Of_The_Snake@hexbear.net

Infamousblt@hexbear.net