Summary
South Korea has officially entered the “super-aged” category, with 20% of its population (10.24 million people) now aged 65 or older, according to the interior ministry.
This marks a significant demographic shift, as the nation struggles with low birth rates and a rapidly aging population.
Regions like Jeolla Province report the highest elderly percentage (27.18%), while Sejong has the lowest (11.57%).
In response, the government plans to create a population strategy ministry to address the crisis with systematic measures and long-term solutions.
Dont forget, before the attempted coup, the government tried extend the work week from an already draconian 50 to 70 hours.
Making the young pay for the sins of the old and their greed/growth/metastasis disease. It’s sickening. It’s the opposite of planting trees whose shade you’ll never sit in. It’s malice towards any future because your time is up and want the world to pay for your bitterness.
It’s what global capitalism has lowered our species to. “have kids you can’t afford to take care of me in old age for a subsistence wage, burn up your lives in my honor, me me me!”
As someone forced to take care of an abusive parent until they grew too weak to physically hurt me over the course of my childhood and teens, I very much intend to put a gun in my mouth before I’d let my eventual, inevitable decline become any younger person’s problem, whether my own child or not. I think anything else is the height of selfishness.
When I was young, my elders told me stories of planting trees. Not for myself but for future generations. Instead they took the land, the wealth, the knowledge and the bits of whatever scraps left behind that made them feel powerful.
Then they turned around and insulted me, belittled me and blamed me for not caring enough about their every wants and fragile emotions. Demanded I work harder while they stood there watching me to criticize my every move. Accused me of selfishness for not following all the awful and outdated advice they constantly forced upon me. Hated me for not following step by step in their traditions that caused so much division and suffering. Bullied me for attempting to express myself freely.
They never got around to planting their trees. They just flicked the cigarette butt and watched the other trees burn.
The elders that left me feeling inspired and comfortable with me being myself are so few and far between that it hurts. It’s hard for me to not feel betrayed by the majority of my elders.
I want to be inspired to do good from people who already do good things. Instead I feel like my empathy for others is being built up out of spite against my elders actions. Their words are so empty and meaningless to me.
I’ve also chosen to not let my future self become a burden on the younger people that follow me. I’ve already chosen my retirement plan. Extreme sports. Wing suit would be fun. I’d easily settle for trying to kick a cop in the nuts.
Buddy, I don’t know anyone under 40 who’s retirement plan is anything other than “Suicide by cop”
What if he just tazes you and him and his buddies kick you in the dirt for an hour?
I know what a point blank barrel feels like. I’ll figure it out.
What about working the young ones to death? That’d do it, right?
that is definitely going to happen to the US and I’m glad because I hate being around kids thanks
Operation Sexy Time!
Fuck no.
The answer to capitalists demanding more desperate slaves isn’t to provide them more desperate slaves.
It’s the opposite. For all the power the global oligarchs have over all of us, it’s one of the few things they’d have a great deal of difficulty forcing at gunpoint, as that just makes a stronger case for a mercy coat hanger abortion (since they’ll be outlawed everywhere sooner or later to feed the needs of the glorious capital markets) later on.
Idk man I love being a dad it’s just about the one thing that makes all this bearable.
That’s great. I hope you have the money, education, time and empathy for kids. Most don’t and should probably never have kids.
I’m doing all right but frankly *reproducing * is about as fundamental a human right and human experience as can be imagined. This antinatalist/childfree doomerism just seems like a rehash of individualizing the responsibility for environmental collapse that happened through the eighties and nineties. It’s the corporations and capitalists killing the world, not the people raising families.
Why fuck up a kid just because you think you deserve to have one? Properly raising kids to be intelligent and productive members of society is hard and a lot of people royally fuck it up.
How many teens are having kids that can’t afford them? How many drug addicted people are having kids? How many apathetic people are having kids? It’s a fucking shame how many kids are let down by their parents.
There are people who’d do anything to migrate to a place like South Korea. No need to have unwanted babies to fill labour shortages.
Yeah but have they considered racism/xenophobia?
That’s just postponing the issue, not solving it
If the root of the problem isn’t solved it will just pop-up again in a few decades
The root of the problem is the baby boom, not the restabilization of the populace
I don’t think they have universal healthcare and their people are worked really hard, not sure why you’d want to go there other than it has a great city.
Heads up, Wikipedia says they do have universal single payer healthcare.
Whoa, you’re right! The US should be so lucky.
Healthcare in South Korea is universal, although a significant portion of healthcare is privately funded. South Korea’s healthcare system is based on the National Health Insurance Service, a public health insurance program run by the Ministry of Health and Welfare to which South Koreans of sufficient income must pay contributions in order to insure themselves and their dependants, and the Medical Aid Program, a social welfare program run by the central government and local governments to insure those unable to pay National Health Insurance contributions. In 2015, South Korea ranked first in the OECD for healthcare access.[1] Satisfaction of healthcare has been consistently among the highest in the world – South Korea was rated as the second most efficient healthcare system by Bloomberg.[2][3] Health insurance in South Korea is single-payer system.[4] The introduction of health insurance resulted in a significant surge in the utilization of healthcare services. Healthcare providers are overburdened by government taking advantage of them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_South_Korea
Edit: Acording to Numbeo (?), the Us is 38th and South Korea is 2. https://www.numbeo.com/health-care/rankings_by_country.jsp
Is the issue people being overworked, or just them not wanting kids due to COL? Or both?
while Sejong has the lowest (11.57%).
If anyone knows about this city then it’s obvious why it would be the lowest
For those who don’t, why is it obvious?
I assume because it is a relatively new city planned to replace Seoul as the capital city to reduce congestion. Its population would be mostly people from outside moving into the area, and elderly people tend to be more set in their ways and less willing to take risks like moving to a newly formed city.
Yes
https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sejong_City
I got no clue man I’m high as fuck
Looks like they tried to make it the new Capital but they made a huge bunch of fuck-ups
I don’t know the direct connection to birth rates. Not sure what happened but I tapped something on accident and can’t read whatever most of the article says now.
true to the username 😤 that’s why we hired you
I need to know
Why was the penis inspection necessary
They know their judo well
It’s a new city
Constructed to move some of the working population out of Seoul, it hasn’t been around long enough to have a large retirement age population
Don’t leave us in suspense, just tell us why.
