The biggest threat to South Korea’s economic health isn’t from North Korean aggression or Chinese competition, said Kim Moon-soo, governor of Gyenggi – the largest province of the country. Kim, also a potential presidential candidate said in an interview with Bloomberg news at New York headquarter, “South Korea will face a very big obstacle to our growth unless families have more babies.”
He added that Korean women with careers tend not to marry and not to have children and it have added to this difficult issue.
According to a Realmeter poll this month, Kim is the third-most-favored candidate from the ruling Grand National Party for next presidential election.
South Korea’s fertility rate was 1.21 per woman in the last five years – the fourth-lowest in the world, the news reported.
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Park Sae-jin
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