How to fix Korea's birthrate? Put girls in school earlier, controversial report argues ( koreajoongangdaily.joins.com )

"Notably, Chang's report claims that biological females develop earlier than males do, so requiring girls to enter school at younger ages will create classes in which the two sexes are of more equal maturity as they age. This, the author posits, makes it more likely that those classmates will be attracted to each other, and marry and have children further down the line."

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"The report does not include evidence of any correlation between female students' early enrollment and the success rate of their romantic relationships with men. The author also does not detail specific mechanisms by which his proposed policy would increase romantic attraction or birthrates."

Stern ,
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"We've got a birthrate crisis, maybe we should make it so a single income of someone working 40 hours a week can support a family of 4?"

"... Or we could explore literally every other option no matter how ridiculous and not do anything which would impact corporate profits even a single penny."

undergroundoverground ,

I mean, after all, their problem is that they want more workers, so they can make more money. Letting people work less defeats the point.

It's our fault for ever thing they would try to fix their problem by making their own problem worse.

Kecessa ,

And then you plan to force people to have kids too? Because otherwise it's not going up.

TVgog56789 ,

Any sensible country will think about providing more incentives to women & couples to have more children and fix financial stressors that's scaring people away from parenthood.

But no let's try some nutjob theories 😂

Pacmanlives ,

They have done some but it’s not been enough to fix their issues

JeeBaiChow ,

Is there something similar to national service in Korea? Just wondering how the guys keep up in the job market when the girls have a 2 year head start.

Xanthrax ,
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Wait, are you joking?

Cikos ,

i think he mean how korean males are at a disadvantage because mandatory military service. singapore has something similar but the rift is not as extreme as korea. korean males really despise feminism movement both because of that and cultural hierarchy. moon channel discussed this topic in length if youre interested

BrowseMan ,

I was going to post this video.
I highly recommend it (and don't stop at its title, it covers a large amount of subjects).

Xanthrax ,
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I'm surprised, this is a surprise. Living in the US, Mexico has forced conscription just south of us for a while. We've also had a draft. All that being said, you made a lot of good points. We should probably credit the people who came up with this a LONG time ago.

Aidinthel ,

All South Korean male citizens are required to perform 18-21 months of military service.

Shard ,

All it really amounts to is a small headstart. It seems like a big gap initially because you're comparing 0 years of experience vs 2 years of experience.

But across a 30 year career its a mere 7% difference. Frankly after 5 to 10 years of experience it becomes a lot less about how long you've worked, it instead becomes more about how you've spent those years and how that translates into benefitting the company. When a company is hiring for mid level and above, it doesn't really matter to them that someone has 8 years vs 10 years. An extreme example would be someone with 5 years at Google vs someone who spent 10 years jumping between small start ups.

SuddenDownpour OP ,

South Korea, are you ok?

Sunforged , (edited )

It can't possibly be the crushing weight of capitalism that is impacting young people's lifestyles.

aeronmelon ,

No. And neither is its education system.

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