Systemic change that offers a credible vision of the future is the only path to reversing the birth rate decline, experts ...

South Korea, the country with the world’s lowest birth rate, expects it to fall even further in the next two years while its overall population is expected to plummet to levels not seen since the ...

With student counts half of 1980 levels, South Korea confronts a crisis of empty classrooms and abandoned sites, raising ...

SUWON, South Korea (Reuters) - South Koreans Kim Eun-ha and Park Cho-hyeon would like to get married and have children, a plan that fits in with government ambitions to boost the world's lowest ...

A total of 21,958 babies were born in October, up 2.5 percent from the same month last year, according to the Ministry of ...

South Korea's military is 20 percent smaller than it was six years ago as the world's lowest birth rate shrinks the pool of men available for enlistment, according to a new report from the country's ...

South Korea has reached a new demographic milestone with its foreign resident population hitting an all-time high, a trend ...

A novel approach by South Korea to stop its rural areas from dying by paying people to live there appears to be working.

In "Korean age," a person is counted as turning one the day of their birth, and another year older come the New Year.

S. Korea youth (19-34) share fell to about 20% as population shrank for 20+ years; suicide rate hit 13-year high, a ...