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  ‘Population cliff’ is especially severe in East Asian countries, why is that so? *Source_The Hankyoreh 6 countries in the top 10 in the world for ‘low birth rate crisis’; commonality is the unbreakable operation of ‘Confucian culture’ If you look at the ‘United Nations World Population Prospects 2022’ report released by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in July of last year, you can see that East Asia’s low birth rate crisis is particularly serious. If you list the total fertility rates of 238 countries around the world (as of 2021) in descending order, the top 10 in the world are Hong Kong (1st, 0.75 people), Korea (2nd, 0.88 people), Singapore (5th, 1.02 people), and Macau. There are six countries, including (6th place, 1.09 people), Taiwan (7th place, 1.11 people), and China (10th place, 1.16 people). The world average ‘total fertility rate’ (the number of children expected to be born to a woman of childbearing age between 15 and 49) is 2.3, but it i...

 ※2024 Korea childbirth/birth fact check Q&A/Nocut News (CBS) -Planning/Reporting: Park Ki-mook, Yang Min-hee, Song Jeong-hoon, Kang Ji-yoon -This project was supported by the Journalism Society of Korea-SNU Fact Check Center. [2024 Korea Childbirth/Birth Fact Check Questions and Answers③] Is Korea the only country with a total fertility rate of 1 or less? Not true at all *Source_CBS Nocut News Reporter Yang Min-hee Source_Worldwide total fertility rate data (2022·PRB). Provided by U.S. Census Bureau Last place according to OECD standards... Is Korea the only country with a total fertility rate of less than 1? A country where there are fewer people born than people who die. A country where women on average do not give birth to even one child. A country that pours 280 trillion won into a broken dock. This is a story about South Korea standing on the edge of a population cliff. From the second quarter to the third quarter, Korea's total fertility rate (the average number of babie...

  최저임금(最低賃金, 영어: minimum wage) This refers to the minimum wage that must be paid to employees, set by the government to prevent exploitation by employers paying employees low wages. To put it simply, it can be said to be an institutional device that protects workers' right to survive by legally setting wage standards that allow for the minimum level of food, clothing, and shelter. In order to stabilize the lives of workers and improve the quality of the workforce, each country sets the minimum wage in accordance with its own laws and regulations. * Minimum Wage Committee *Photo_News TNT Minimum wage to change in 2024 (hourly wage) *Source_Ministry of Employment and Labor official blog Minimum wage applicable in 2024: KRW 9,860 per hour / Labor Standards Policy Division, Labor Policy Office, Ministry of Employment and Labor *Source_Economic Information Center KDI The Ministry of Employment and Labor announced on Friday, August 4 that it had decided and announced that the minimum wag...