I have been binge watching English-speaking Japanese men talking about how their country is dying, and now I made it to the South Korean side! I don't know why, but I am so invested and interested in such topics!
Unfortunately the end of the world is approaching closely according to the prophecy of the Bible. It could be one of the signs. Jesus is coming back & you want to be ready for it. There's more deep down things we need to know about, such as eternity. It's not all about matters of our lives on earth. Seek the truth in the Bible. It will tell you everything you need to know. Nothing on earth is a coincidence, but God is in control. The low rates of some countries is not the only issues, but there are more problems & hidden issues ahead of us that God warns us thru the Bible. Dive into it & prepare before it's too late. This world is in big trouble being separated by its Creator. Jesus is the only hope for all mankind.
Our man here reminds me so much of my best friend in latter elementary school. His mother was ROK and when I would stay over on the weekends with them she would give us fun assignments communicating in spy ways and such, and told us about the evils of communism. We lost contact before our teens as his father's job required them to relocate. I learned so much from them and miss them dearly. The most best friend I ever had and I am old.
its also a cultural issue. women do no longer want to have children, settle down and marry. women no longer need a man to have access to ressources and dating culture has become extremely promiscuous among women
Thank you for sharing! I recently read that South Korea's fertility rate dropped 8% in 2023 alone. It seems like significant changes to work/life balance are needed so people can have more time to raise families. Looking forward to more of your videos.
Don’t listen to these silly comments about inappropriate dress codes. It’s obviously hot over there ( I’m in Australia) I’m not offended in the least. Some people! How dare they tell you how to dress in your own video. In fact, I’m becoming infuriated by the minute over their dictatorial, officious and high and mighty attitude. Total nonsense. I like your videos.
Hello, Average Korean Man!! I just recently discovered your channel & am really enjoying it. May I compliment you on your English--you speak very well & are easy to understand. As a red-blooded American woman, I did not mind at all that you were shirtless. I rather enjoyed it! You are a cutie!!
That’s crazy. Is that’s why we see so many more match making shows in Korea now? I see more and more Korean realty match making shows on Netflix. This is very interesting.
I think one problem can also be that people wanna travel, focus on them self, find them self, dont want to destroy thier body giving birth, also hard to meet the right person, and people maybe have mentally issues and other issues.
I was interested in the topic but then couldn't watch the video after a few seconds because of the guy being shirtless and possibly fully naked. For all of you who think it's fine or appropriate to be naked while talking about low birth rates in South Korea, you must have very low standards.
Hi, I just came across your channel. You have an interesting topic here. I am interested in Korea because I worked for Samsung (in the US) for several years. One thing you don't mention about the US - its birth rate is 1.62 but it makes up the replacement rate by its immigration policy. So, US population will actually increase over time in spite of having a birth rate less than 2. BTW, I have a simple solution to solve the Korean birth rate problem: 1. Make national service compulsory for women just like it is for men (not military service, but some kind of community service like the US Peace Corps) 2. So, for two years women should work for the government (maybe helping elderly, helping NK defectors, tutoring poor students etc) 3. Korean men will be very happy because they have been complaining about this discrimination for decades. 4. Then exempt all women with children from the 2-year government national service. 5. Women will now start breeding like rabbits to avoid national service - problem solved. Of course, policies like subsidizing child birth and child education should continue.
I have heard other people from south Korea talking about the problem with this . Thank you for taking the time to break it down for us. This is heart breaking .
Hello average Korea man , I am average Afghanistan guy living in north Afghanistan , I learning English from the american before they leave , maybe I can also make a channel talking on my situation
okay, so 1) what is the death rate and is menopause coming later? I know menopaus in the US, the timing is getting later in life. So women in mid 50s can have children. 2) can you have a mass migration of youth out of cities, like a movement, to agriculture and farming sector, and repopulate SouthWest Korea? Orchards, fishing etc.
South Korea worked economic miracles and transformed one of the poorest countries into one of the richest. Now it needs to work a social miracle. How can you encourage young people to have children? This needs to become an urgent priority. But it is an economic issue as well. Having children needs to be affordable and workplaces and society in general need to redesign completely away from the attitudes and systems that were in place in the fifties and create absolutely family friendly, even family first, environments.
That's not enough... You need to design society such that young people WILL meet each other a lot as young adults, work with each other, and couples are able to start households around age 25.
Wherever lower birth rates exist, the move from agrarian to industrialized society is a key factor. Farm families typically had children because they were cheap labor and played an essential role in the family's economic success. As people gravitated toward cities, child labor was no longer needed. In fact, too many children were a financial burden. Parents therefore made an economically sound decision to have fewer children. In hindsight, the desire to rapidly push toward industrialization was too intense. The few that got rich paid more attention to their revenue stream but looked the other way when economic viability was threatened.
WHich is why i suggest a mass move OUT of the cities by the youth. SImilar to the Cottege Craft movement in the US a century ago. Build orchards, farmlands, specialty agriculture, etc.
@@ArielaShines Sounds good, but difficult to execute. The greedy rich are still driving government to spend big $$ on big cities, so where will the $$ come from to incentivize such a movement? Young folks don't have the $$ to lease property let alone buy. Unless seniors with savings grouped together to finance it, a huge shift in mindset would be required to make this movement happen. The greedy rich will resist, forcefully if necessary.
@@italiangm1 Reetirees or mid life changers from the USA might help. With enough capital it is possible to start with like an herb pfarm,and specialize, then do vertical an horizontal grown into other crops. Orchards though, that this an undertaking. Government grant maybe? Yes, corporations will probably fight it, but if it means more population, then they have an incentive to help, not pull back. Have to show the long term impact. Sejong City was a great idea just a few years before its time. Also, is a city model what is needed or a suburb model? So many questions. it would apply really to any industrialized nation with birth decline.
Im hoping and thinking things will stabilize in a lot of countries as a big source of this low B.R. Is economic as people think it’s too expensive to raise children but if pop decreases maybe things will be cheaper and things will get better. Like after the Black Death plague and huge population decline the average person life improved and things began getting better long term
I agree about this issue in Korea. The teachers now are starting to get laid off because there is no children to educate at the lower grades which will increase as the children start going up through the schools. Korea will have to bring people in to work from other countries or companies will need to outsource overseas which Kia and Hyundai is starting to do now. The men will need to leave Korea to find women because men are normally prioritized if they are the first child. Look at China 300 million more men than women. China finally figured out that men were dating other men because there were no women or escape China to find a women so they allow 3 children now. This is so serious and the government of Korea needs to gut everything. You need 2.1 children as a country to offset because things happen and you might lose a child which is just reality. Also Kdrama and KPOP is not helping all this mess. It might seem like it's helping but watching the Krama's I can see why no one has kids. Prioritizing education/work over family creates a more robotic society than a family oriented society.
just had my first daughter, it's GREAT to have kids and besides a few tired nights, it's been 99% pure joy and the best thing that has ever happened to me. But I also married a traditional Asian woman. All my American friends from college (now around 35-40 years old) all go on about how they HATE kids, don't want to lose their beauty and how Trump is going to stop abortion so why even bother trying to have kids if they don't get to control exactly when it happens. it's NUT and they will regret it when they are older I am very sure of it.
more boys than girls are born , normally 100 girls vs 105 - 108 boys depending on country , therefore without wars many countries modern countries have a shortage of young women ,
Great and informative video. I think it's important to look at the causes, which we all mainly know is cultural, societal and of course the economics. The massive technological advancements (of course the fear of AI replacing many jobs) also plays a huge part as by consequence creates a more introverted and anti-social society (people who are more likely to lock themselves in a room enjoying the fast internet while only go out to buy groceries or when needed, as well as being addicted to corn which limits their chances of meeting someone and increasing the birth rate). There's also the education sector, as we all know, Korea's education system is very very highly competitive (like most of East Asia) which results in high 'S' rates due to the rigorous and depressing setting (bullying, cyberbullying and high expectations from parents that burden the students) of most schools. You can search the statistics of all these factors yourself for a more thorough and in-depth research. It's very interesting to see how completely different factors affect birth rates. South Korea is a mixture between a Confucian society and a Western society. It's easy to identify the many problems, but what are the solutions? 🤔 There are probably countless solutions but it all depends on if the government is willing to take the initiative (remember that governments never really do anything until it gets really really bad) as time is of the essence. I read somewhere that the Korean government is giving out passports to foreigners with stable incomes in hopes that they would live and marry a Korean man/woman, I want to hear your thoughts on this from a Korean perspective, do you think the government is doing the right thing? Do you think that Korea will lose it's homogeneity? Do you think it's ok as long as the foreigners are educated and come to Korea legally?
Hello! I think what you’re describing here is the total fertility rate, and not the birth rate (which is usually measured per 1,000 population). I believe that both rates are declining throughout the world, though the causes may be varied.
@@average_korean_man You will most likely stay unmarried and without children making shirtless videos and naked videos. Most woman with higher standards would be turned off by your unprofessionalism and presentation style on this kind of topic.
@@average_korean_man You will most likely stay unmarried and without children making shirtless videos and naked videos on such a serious topic. Super unprofessional. Most woman with higher standards would be turned off by your unprofessionalism and with your shirtless presentation style, especially on this kind of topic.
He can't affect the birth rate by himself even if he makes 100 children with 10 women... Societal change is the ONLY solution. Although it's good for him personally if he has a family.
Birth rate measures the number of births per 1,000 inhabitants in a certain period, typically per year. The fertility rate, on the other hand, refers to the average number of children that a woman of childbearing age (usually 15-49 years) has in the course of her life. South Korea is 5. in lowest birth rates, and 1. in lowest fertility rates. Best wishes from Austria, those rates/numbers are not much better here.
Im my province, Québec in Canada, the birth rate has been as high as 38 or 39 per 1,000 women at the beginning of the 20th century is now 8,8 bitrths per 1,000 women. I quess it must be the same in all industrialized and rich countries. In Africa, the birth rate in 2023 was 31.599 births per 1000 people.
I was visiting SK during the second week of June and the weather was very nice but a bit hot. Our tour guide told us about the birth rate. I thought it was interesting
Can someone explain why this is an issue outside of there being less population? Wouldn’t less population mean less costs to run the country and perhaps more space for the population
There will be many problems. But I will give to one example. S.Korea has a population of 50 million and Seoul(the capital) has 10 million currently. Everybody wants to and tries to go to Seoul for work because all the jobs are centered in Seoul. So let's say the population of S.Korea became 20 million in the future. The population of Seoul will still be 10 million and the rest of the country will be empty.
8:28 I don't know if I should say this, but DPRK and ROK are technically still at war even until today. But DPRK don't even need to fire a single bullet, just play a waiting game, and by the time of Kim Jong-Un's Grandson's time, DPRK would have won the war when the scenario of ROK being the "first country to disappear"
The life expectancy in DPRK is less than 60 and they have a serious population decline from bouts of famine and people unable to live a decent life with human fecal fertilizer, parasites, and diseases. So yeah, they are not better off at all. ROK just needs to have more babies and they will be golden. The conglomerates are going to have to bend to the needs of the nation or they will not last in the future.
I was gonna be like bra wheres your clothes, then I realized you're literally presenting a chart on how your society is dying, so why would you care. Well done videos despite the lack of dress code.
Hello, I heared about S.K birthrate news long back buf it is true. I am watching many korean content creater in youtube and insta. Many men and women in korea ar nearly reaching around 40 but no marriages happened to them if married but no kids yet. Thanks for sharing with us genuinely🤝💐
Talking about birth rate half naked is awesome ! I'm dying 😂😂😂😂. I bet all the uptight morons are in heaven screaming and yelling about that... secretly disappointed not seeing more 😂😂😂. It was extremely interesting by the way !
It’s always interesting to see how the refusal of political leaders to actually SEE a problem in order to fix it causes the problem to get worse. We have the same lack of problem solving in the US. Women here feel less and less safe or comfortable to have children here either. But because we continue to immigrate people, our population can still grow. Korea does not have an easy path to residency or naturalization for non Koreans. So if Koreans aren’t making babies, there will just be no babies. There are options that can be taken to make the environment better for women, for families, and for workers, but it would take a shift in mindset and culture that I’m not sure the population would really go for. This is also the same in the US. They could also make the environment better for women, for families, and for workers. But if it doesn’t make life better for Congress, they won’t make it happen. 😔
In the birth rates, you cannot assume that girls and boys will be of equal number. There could be more girls than boys or the other way around. The stats assume that the births will be even, but that is not the case. So, it could even be less.
There are small errors or big errors in that calculation which you have not considered Suicides are committed in Korea the most in the world, which is about 10%-12% of the population also representatives of different genders are LGBT and binary people who do not have a gender different gender identity and orientation which is about 3-10% of the population which affects childbirth - Working conditions and training are too narrow and the job market is too tough, people work up to 14-20 hour days which kills everyone Korea's rapid industrialization is a sad problem, but development has not yet come along, the elderly are the largest group that consumes a lot of the health care and social care system . The population is getting older and graying and when the number of people over 60 is greater than under 40 - the proportion increases, which means social and health spending increases . Young people in Korea want to get into a European and US style life by consuming different products, but they forget their own parents alone, causing them to get sick more and many young people's financial condition- can't have children because society doesn't take care of them financially These are the same problems in Europe and all western countries where the birth rate is low - EDUCATION should be made more international so that the majority still speak languages other than Korean. Also RACIST BEHAVIOR AND SPEECHES AND OPINIONS and SHOULD BE FORGOTTEN WHEN GETTING LABOR FROM THIRD COUNTRIES All these are political decisions in order to make childbirth profitable where fathers and mothers have paternity (and mother's leave for 3 years after the child's birth, WHICH, in turn, requires creating a new social and healthcare system. etc . Labor is needed from abroad, i.e. from 3 countries, resulting in a gap of about 19 years, exactly what it used to be It is affected by politics, how many people can be obtained from 3 countries. Many Koreans are very racist and many fear the workforce of 3 countries which are often even better than the original population Here's something to think about Am I not wise? hahahha when I'm so wise that everyone understands hahahha
it's a very interesting topic. It relates to all the world as well as fertility rates are dropping fast and Elon Musk even said many years ago that the world's biggest problem is population decline. People do not realize it but while the population of the planet continue to grow to 11-12 billion by 2100, it's only because people are living longer so that is why the numbers are going up for now...but once the lag catches up, the population will decrease so rapidly it'll come like a thief in the night and the world won't realize it until it's already too late. But there is a different theory. By 2100, the world will have changed so much that we won't need many people anyways. Nations will turn into corporations and automation, ai, robotics, neural link/brain net, cloning, genetic factories will change everything and the world will function on just 1 or 2 billion or even less without a problem. But we are not there yet. It's going to be really bad for long time before it gets good. Halving the world's population is going to create chaos anarchy and disorder as systems fall and societies lose their footing but only for a while until we adapt the new world order which will not need many humans.
Most channels say the birth rate is low because of frigidity among men and women, then because of violence against women, but the Korean man lives in a patriarchal society.
I think the change would radicate in the fact that more moral and ethic values where shared in Korea in educational institutions, this would change the birth rate by far. And why is that? Well in kore most youngsters arround the age of 20 and 25 go and hang arround clubbing and have no manners with girls and the same goes for the girls, in fact if you count the body count of Korean women you would be shocked, they only have sex for pleasure and not for love/romance and function (wich is to make children). If ethic values where taught to them from an early age they would consider marriage even more in their late age and even would desire it. Something's gotta change!!! Much support from an Amazigh of North Africa my Korean brother!
@@vrishnisivakumaran1232 When did i say that, giving birth to a human beeing should never be forced on any woman, my point was that most of them are just hoes due to a high bodycount. Am i wrong in that?
I feel like this is a problem that can be solved overnight. Allow immigrants. Give tax breaks to new parents. Companies give good maternal leave to mothers.
Why do you assume that Americans are the ony ones that speak English?? There are many Korean people who have studied overseas & speak english, he could be talking to them. You americans are so self absorbed.
immigration might save the birth rate. the reason why the USA is almost 2 is because of immigration. also, the work life pressure is horrible with long hours.
That was funny and cute when you lost your train of thought. ㅋㅋ Also though your numbers are very abstract just to show how quickly population can decrease, you also have to factor in children who die before reaching reproductive age and people who physically cannot reproduce, which makes the numbers even more dire.
Don’t worry, mate. There will be lots of AI robots doing jobs, so after some time there will be universal income. This will create opportunities to have more kids. Also, in the US and Western nations, they are taking in lots of refugees and immigrants. They are even letting in illegal immigrants. You guys could do something similar as well. Japan has breeding visas; you guys could do something similar. You have to fear Kim Jong-un more than your population.
5:49 아니요 Your population doesn't go down like that, women that give birth just don't suddenly die. 이상한 예문 이에요 7:00 Earlier you said that in 60 years your population will go down to 12.5% (200 -> 24) but here, numbers you have on paper says in 50 years you will have gone down to 44%. Why these numbers differ? Right, there is a 10 year difference but the difference is very large here and that 10 years can't account for the differences you show. 8:50 Expert says your population will go down to 40% in 75 years. 그차이들이랑 모르겠어요 I suggest most people don't really know what will happen. Japan went through the same thing, same fear on top of an economic crisis, result: Japan is still alive and kicking.
The reason is because of men who can't bother putting on a shirt while making a video online is extremely unattractive and a huge turn off for normal women with standards.
sorry to hear that as this can become a crysis in the future in my country Pakistan its the opposite its overpopulated which is also not a good thing Pakistan is rank at 5 th place in top 10 most populous countries.
That's how Britain tries to resolve this issue ( like in the 1930s ,during the great depression); then they blame the immigrants for their internal problems.
Yeah, it might happen, here in Poland they are taking in bangladeshi, ukrainians, pakistani to work hard labour at factories, etc. Nobody wants to take jobs there and the birth rate here is quite low. Koreans will have to take people from poorer countries to make up for work force eventually. Then people will get mad about migrants, because they're there to do jobs they don't wanna do, same old story.
Belgium has a birth rate of 1,60. So that is ok. What I see the last years is that there are more babies than before. I saw a big difference after COVID actually.
A surface area of Earth (without Antarctica) is 135 000 000 sq km. On Earth live 8 mld of people. Average density of population on Earth is 59 people/sq km. South Korea has density more than 500 people/sq km. It's almost ten times overpopulated. How do you know that current count of people of S.Korea is optimal (be worried its decline)?
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This guy will probably end up staying single and childless, because what normal woman with standards would find a man appealing or attractive who can't bother putting on a shirt and who thinks it's appropriate to make a shirtless video on the topic of South Korea's low birthrate problem. All the people defending him being shirtless are imo weirdos and have low standards.
I’m wondering if a taboo, shyness, uncomfortableness about s*x is a factor in S Korea’s low birth rate. I only say this because there are many poorer countries that don’t have a low birth rate, or at least not as severe of one. Rationally it seems like there HAS to be more factors than just the cost of raising children that’s contributing to this. People in every country have to make financial sacrifices to have children, so why are people in S Korea seemingly not willing to make those same sacrifices? Is the competitive nature of people in S Korea so important culturally that people are willing to risk never having children in order to “win” the competition? This is a very interesting, but also tragic topic.
@@average_korean_man Yes, thank you so much, someone else explained that to me in another of your videos comments & it makes a lot more sense to me now. Is it generally viewed more as a mans responsibility to ensure everything is in place prior to marriage? In the US people marry and work towards those things together.
Most western countries supplement their birth rate with very high immigration levels. Much of this is driven by taxation reasons ie we import adult workers who can immediately contribute to the tax system. This enables social welfare to continue.
No it's not, that's a way to destroy the society. At least with a large elderly population the entitlement can be cut. Immigration is only a temporary solution and doesn't fix the issue
Whatever, the consequences will happen after us. It also will happen gradually, just a graduall population decline, nothing bad. It is definetly not on the brink of disappearance with the population of 50 million people it will require thousand years to dissappear. Yes, population would be poorer, definetely, but it will happen gradually and just instead of Korea need to invest in more promising countries. In Korea the poorer pop will become the more babies it will have. So all is balanced.
I have been binge watching English-speaking Japanese men talking about how their country is dying, and now I made it to the South Korean side! I don't know why, but I am so invested and interested in such topics!
South Korea is even worse than Japan, unless the fertility rates go up quite a bit.
Unfortunately the end of the world is approaching closely according to the prophecy of the Bible. It could be one of the signs. Jesus is coming back & you want to be ready for it. There's more deep down things we need to know about, such as eternity. It's not all about matters of our lives on earth. Seek the truth in the Bible. It will tell you everything you need to know. Nothing on earth is a coincidence, but God is in control.
The low rates of some countries is not the only issues, but there are more problems & hidden issues ahead of us that God warns us thru the Bible. Dive into it & prepare before it's too late. This world is in big trouble being separated by its Creator. Jesus is the only hope for all mankind.
Our man here reminds me so much of my best friend in latter elementary school. His mother was ROK and when I would stay over on the weekends with them she would give us fun assignments communicating in spy ways and such, and told us about the evils of communism.
We lost contact before our teens as his father's job required them to relocate. I learned so much from them and miss them dearly. The most best friend I ever had and I am old.
It’s just how the world is going, soon many countries will join you. Housing/job crisis is everywhere. From a Brazilian
Yep, I agree.
its also a cultural issue. women do no longer want to have children, settle down and marry. women no longer need a man to have access to ressources and dating culture has become extremely promiscuous among women
Brazilian here and sadly that seems to be how things are going everywhere, afaik here in Brazil we'll face the same problems
You and your girlfriend better get busy.
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Thank you for sharing! I recently read that South Korea's fertility rate dropped 8% in 2023 alone. It seems like significant changes to work/life balance are needed so people can have more time to raise families. Looking forward to more of your videos.
Don’t listen to these silly comments about inappropriate dress codes. It’s obviously hot over there ( I’m in Australia) I’m not offended in the least. Some people! How dare they tell you how to dress in your own video. In fact, I’m becoming infuriated by the minute over their dictatorial, officious and high and mighty attitude. Total nonsense. I like your videos.
He is only showing his shoulders! I assumed it was hot too. Also in Australia and with no a/c.
@@Daydream_Singularity Hi there! I’m near Byron Bay in NSW. Where are you?
@@MoonstoneStarChaser Sydney.
Going up to 97 in pa Monday yuck !
Women can't walk around with just their bras though 😂 and it's very hot! you would start singing a different tune.
Hello, Average Korean Man!! I just recently discovered your channel & am really enjoying it. May I compliment you on your English--you speak very well & are easy to understand. As a red-blooded American woman, I did not mind at all that you were shirtless. I rather enjoyed it! You are a cutie!!
That’s crazy. Is that’s why we see so many more match making shows in Korea now? I see more and more Korean realty match making shows on Netflix. This is very interesting.
2 Korean babies here in the USA. Trying to help out.
Keep going on ! You are gold for your country 😜
I like this dude. Learning about other cultures is amazing. Also ge does not look like he's in his 30s. Way younger!
Thanks for your explanation, very kindly explained and presented.😊
in Poland is around 1.33 and people are adressing this issue a lot so 0.72 sounds crazy
I think one problem can also be that people wanna travel, focus on them self, find them self, dont want to destroy thier body giving birth, also hard to meet the right person, and people maybe have mentally issues and other issues.
That’s one issue but not even in the top 10 reasons. Check his previous video.
Makes you wonder if this will cause some sort of economic reset in the future... otherwise, how else will birth rates improve?
Hello viewers, if you have an issue with him or how he does his videos just don't watch it.
I was interested in the topic but then couldn't watch the video after a few seconds because of the guy being shirtless and possibly fully naked. For all of you who think it's fine or appropriate to be naked while talking about low birth rates in South Korea, you must have very low standards.
@@KP-de6td it's normal smh people are born naked
@@KP-de6td No one forced you to watch! I don't have low standards YOU have a dirty mind.
@@KP-de6td I don't have low standards, you have dirty thoughts.
@@herz11Just because we're born naked doesn't mean we should be walking around naked or making UA-cam videos naked.
Hi, I just came across your channel. You have an interesting topic here. I am interested in Korea because I worked for Samsung (in the US) for several years. One thing you don't mention about the US - its birth rate is 1.62 but it makes up the replacement rate by its immigration policy. So, US population will actually increase over time in spite of having a birth rate less than 2. BTW, I have a simple solution to solve the Korean birth rate problem:
1. Make national service compulsory for women just like it is for men (not military service, but some kind of community service like the US Peace Corps)
2. So, for two years women should work for the government (maybe helping elderly, helping NK defectors, tutoring poor students etc)
3. Korean men will be very happy because they have been complaining about this discrimination for decades.
4. Then exempt all women with children from the 2-year government national service.
5. Women will now start breeding like rabbits to avoid national service - problem solved.
Of course, policies like subsidizing child birth and child education should continue.
I have heard other people from south Korea talking about the problem with this . Thank you for taking the time to break it down for us. This is heart breaking .
Hello average Korea man , I am average Afghanistan guy living in north Afghanistan , I learning English from the american before they leave , maybe I can also make a channel talking on my situation
okay, so 1) what is the death rate and is menopause coming later? I know menopaus in the US, the timing is getting later in life. So women in mid 50s can have children. 2) can you have a mass migration of youth out of cities, like a movement, to agriculture and farming sector, and repopulate SouthWest Korea? Orchards, fishing etc.
😅 didn’t know the birth rate in South Korea is worst than Japan 🇯🇵
I really liked this video! Well explained!
South Korea worked economic miracles and transformed one of the poorest countries into one of the richest. Now it needs to work a social miracle. How can you encourage young people to have children? This needs to become an urgent priority. But it is an economic issue as well. Having children needs to be affordable and workplaces and society in general need to redesign completely away from the attitudes and systems that were in place in the fifties and create absolutely family friendly, even family first, environments.
That's not enough... You need to design society such that young people WILL meet each other a lot as young adults, work with each other, and couples are able to start households around age 25.
Wherever lower birth rates exist, the move from agrarian to industrialized society is a key factor. Farm families typically had children because they were cheap labor and played an essential role in the family's economic success. As people gravitated toward cities, child labor was no longer needed. In fact, too many children were a financial burden. Parents therefore made an economically sound decision to have fewer children. In hindsight, the desire to rapidly push toward industrialization was too intense. The few that got rich paid more attention to their revenue stream but looked the other way when economic viability was threatened.
WHich is why i suggest a mass move OUT of the cities by the youth. SImilar to the Cottege Craft movement in the US a century ago. Build orchards, farmlands, specialty agriculture, etc.
@@ArielaShines Sounds good, but difficult to execute. The greedy rich are still driving government to spend big $$ on big cities, so where will the $$ come from to incentivize such a movement? Young folks don't have the $$ to lease property let alone buy. Unless seniors with savings grouped together to finance it, a huge shift in mindset would be required to make this movement happen. The greedy rich will resist, forcefully if necessary.
@@italiangm1 Reetirees or mid life changers from the USA might help. With enough capital it is possible to start with like an herb pfarm,and specialize, then do vertical an horizontal grown into other crops. Orchards though, that this an undertaking. Government grant maybe? Yes, corporations will probably fight it, but if it means more population, then they have an incentive to help, not pull back. Have to show the long term impact. Sejong City was a great idea just a few years before its time. Also, is a city model what is needed or a suburb model? So many questions. it would apply really to any industrialized nation with birth decline.
Im hoping and thinking things will stabilize in a lot of countries as a big source of this low B.R. Is economic as people think it’s too expensive to raise children but if pop decreases maybe things will be cheaper and things will get better.
Like after the Black Death plague and huge population decline the average person life improved and things began getting better long term
Wow. That is sad.😢
I agree about this issue in Korea. The teachers now are starting to get laid off because there is no children to educate at the lower grades which will increase as the children start going up through the schools. Korea will have to bring people in to work from other countries or companies will need to outsource overseas which Kia and Hyundai is starting to do now. The men will need to leave Korea to find women because men are normally prioritized if they are the first child. Look at China 300 million more men than women. China finally figured out that men were dating other men because there were no women or escape China to find a women so they allow 3 children now. This is so serious and the government of Korea needs to gut everything. You need 2.1 children as a country to offset because things happen and you might lose a child which is just reality. Also Kdrama and KPOP is not helping all this mess. It might seem like it's helping but watching the Krama's I can see why no one has kids. Prioritizing education/work over family creates a more robotic society than a family oriented society.
Thanks again . I wish you success with your videos.🎉
Great video! Keep up the great informative videos. Love it. ❤
just had my first daughter, it's GREAT to have kids and besides a few tired nights, it's been 99% pure joy and the best thing that has ever happened to me. But I also married a traditional Asian woman. All my American friends from college (now around 35-40 years old) all go on about how they HATE kids, don't want to lose their beauty and how Trump is going to stop abortion so why even bother trying to have kids if they don't get to control exactly when it happens. it's NUT and they will regret it when they are older I am very sure of it.
more boys than girls are born , normally 100 girls vs 105 - 108 boys depending on country ,
therefore without wars many countries modern countries have a shortage of young women ,
Great and informative video. I think it's important to look at the causes, which we all mainly know is cultural, societal and of course the economics. The massive technological advancements (of course the fear of AI replacing many jobs) also plays a huge part as by consequence creates a more introverted and anti-social society (people who are more likely to lock themselves in a room enjoying the fast internet while only go out to buy groceries or when needed, as well as being addicted to corn which limits their chances of meeting someone and increasing the birth rate). There's also the education sector, as we all know, Korea's education system is very very highly competitive (like most of East Asia) which results in high 'S' rates due to the rigorous and depressing setting (bullying, cyberbullying and high expectations from parents that burden the students) of most schools. You can search the statistics of all these factors yourself for a more thorough and in-depth research.
It's very interesting to see how completely different factors affect birth rates. South Korea is a mixture between a Confucian society and a Western society. It's easy to identify the many problems, but what are the solutions? 🤔
There are probably countless solutions but it all depends on if the government is willing to take the initiative (remember that governments never really do anything until it gets really really bad) as time is of the essence. I read somewhere that the Korean government is giving out passports to foreigners with stable incomes in hopes that they would live and marry a Korean man/woman, I want to hear your thoughts on this from a Korean perspective, do you think the government is doing the right thing? Do you think that Korea will lose it's homogeneity? Do you think it's ok as long as the foreigners are educated and come to Korea legally?
Thank you for telling us about this situation.
Hello! I think what you’re describing here is the total fertility rate, and not the birth rate (which is usually measured per 1,000 population). I believe that both rates are declining throughout the world, though the causes may be varied.
Hi, I am Italian, we have a similar problem but not that serious. Thanks for making videos😊
First thing first, are you married?
Not yet 😂
@@average_korean_man You will most likely stay unmarried and without children making shirtless videos and naked videos. Most woman with higher standards would be turned off by your unprofessionalism and presentation style on this kind of topic.
@@average_korean_man You will most likely stay unmarried and without children making shirtless videos and naked videos on such a serious topic. Super unprofessional. Most woman with higher standards would be turned off by your unprofessionalism and with your shirtless presentation style, especially on this kind of topic.
@@KP-de6td did he show any nip and I missed it?
He can't affect the birth rate by himself even if he makes 100 children with 10 women... Societal change is the ONLY solution.
Although it's good for him personally if he has a family.
Thanks for your interesting content
Have you considered playing Street Fighter II?
C'était très clair avec le tableau blanc.
C'est choquant quand on fait les calculs (^.^;
Merci et bon courage!
Birth rate measures the number of births per 1,000 inhabitants in a certain period, typically per year. The fertility rate, on the other hand, refers to the average number of children that a woman of childbearing age (usually 15-49 years) has in the course of her life. South Korea is 5. in lowest birth rates, and 1. in lowest fertility rates. Best wishes from Austria, those rates/numbers are not much better here.
Poland is facing a similiar problem the birthrate is at 1.33 here atm of writing this.
Im my province, Québec in Canada, the birth rate has been as high as 38 or 39 per 1,000 women at the beginning of the 20th century is now 8,8 bitrths per 1,000 women.
I quess it must be the same in all industrialized and rich countries. In Africa, the birth rate in 2023 was 31.599 births per 1000 people.
Those numbers without man going to the wars…
I was visiting SK during the second week of June and the weather was very nice but a bit hot. Our tour guide told us about the birth rate. I thought it was interesting
Why are you shirtless?
But remember that current birthrates in europe are being overshadowed by the not natives
What is the government doing about this?
Silly stuff I guess🙄
Sad fact and scary 😥
Can someone explain why this is an issue outside of there being less population? Wouldn’t less population mean less costs to run the country and perhaps more space for the population
There will be many problems. But I will give to one example. S.Korea has a population of 50 million and Seoul(the capital) has 10 million currently. Everybody wants to and tries to go to Seoul for work because all the jobs are centered in Seoul. So let's say the population of S.Korea became 20 million in the future. The population of Seoul will still be 10 million and the rest of the country will be empty.
@@average_korean_man Gotcha so It will be hard to maintain the country
@@average_korean_manbut there are many agricultural and fishing jobs the country still depends on in rural areas too. What will happen to those jobs?
8:28 I don't know if I should say this, but DPRK and ROK are technically still at war even until today. But DPRK don't even need to fire a single bullet, just play a waiting game, and by the time of Kim Jong-Un's Grandson's time, DPRK would have won the war when the scenario of ROK being the "first country to disappear"
The life expectancy in DPRK is less than 60 and they have a serious population decline from bouts of famine and people unable to live a decent life with human fecal fertilizer, parasites, and diseases. So yeah, they are not better off at all. ROK just needs to have more babies and they will be golden. The conglomerates are going to have to bend to the needs of the nation or they will not last in the future.
why is he not wearing a shirt?
I was gonna be like bra wheres your clothes, then I realized you're literally presenting a chart on how your society is dying, so why would you care. Well done videos despite the lack of dress code.
Goodbye my sweet Korea 😢
100 W + Genghis Khan
Hello, I heared about S.K birthrate news long back buf it is true. I am watching many korean content creater in youtube and insta. Many men and women in korea ar nearly reaching around 40 but no marriages happened to them if married but no kids yet. Thanks for sharing with us genuinely🤝💐
Was it your birthday? 🎂
I noticed that you said you were 33 years old. If that's the case, I congratulate you and wish you all the best.
Did I say that?? Sorry that was my mistake. I'm 32 😄
take the congratulations in advance😂😂😂
If this goes on, NK will be able to waltz in without any resistence...
Their birth rate is just as grim and they have a really short life expectancy there.
Talking about birth rate half naked is awesome ! I'm dying 😂😂😂😂. I bet all the uptight morons are in heaven screaming and yelling about that... secretly disappointed not seeing more 😂😂😂. It was extremely interesting by the way !
Haha thank you for watching 😄
It’s always interesting to see how the refusal of political leaders to actually SEE a problem in order to fix it causes the problem to get worse. We have the same lack of problem solving in the US.
Women here feel less and less safe or comfortable to have children here either. But because we continue to immigrate people, our population can still grow.
Korea does not have an easy path to residency or naturalization for non Koreans. So if Koreans aren’t making babies, there will just be no babies. There are options that can be taken to make the environment better for women, for families, and for workers, but it would take a shift in mindset and culture that I’m not sure the population would really go for.
This is also the same in the US. They could also make the environment better for women, for families, and for workers. But if it doesn’t make life better for Congress, they won’t make it happen. 😔
Are you going to get a VR set soon?
Askjapan?
In the birth rates, you cannot assume that girls and boys will be of equal number. There could be more girls than boys or the other way around. The stats assume that the births will be even, but that is not the case. So, it could even be less.
Other countries use immigration to boost their numbers.
Also, at a point, North Korea may unite with South Korea.
There are small errors or big errors in that calculation
which you have not considered
Suicides are committed in Korea the most in the world, which is about 10%-12% of the population
also representatives of different genders are LGBT and binary people who do not have a gender different gender identity and orientation which is about 3-10% of the population which affects childbirth
- Working conditions and training are too narrow and the job market is too tough, people work up to 14-20 hour days which kills everyone
Korea's rapid industrialization is a sad problem, but development has not yet come along, the elderly are the largest group that consumes a lot of the health care and social care system
. The population is getting older and graying and when the number of people over 60 is greater than under 40 - the proportion increases, which means social and health spending increases
. Young people in Korea want to get into a European and US style life by consuming different products, but they forget their own parents alone, causing them to get sick more and many young people's financial condition- can't have children because society doesn't take care of them financially
These are the same problems in Europe and all western countries where the birth rate is low
- EDUCATION should be made more international so that the majority still speak languages other than Korean. Also RACIST BEHAVIOR AND SPEECHES AND OPINIONS and SHOULD BE FORGOTTEN WHEN GETTING LABOR FROM THIRD COUNTRIES
All these are political decisions in order to make childbirth profitable where fathers and mothers have paternity (and mother's leave for 3 years after the child's birth, WHICH, in turn, requires creating a new social and healthcare system.
etc
. Labor is needed from abroad, i.e. from 3 countries, resulting in a gap of about 19 years, exactly what it used to be
It is affected by politics, how many people can be obtained from 3 countries.
Many Koreans are very racist and many fear the workforce of 3 countries which are often even better than the original population
Here's something to think about
Am I not wise? hahahha when I'm so wise that everyone understands hahahha
I would fit in there, I have 1 daughter lol!
it's a very interesting topic. It relates to all the world as well as fertility rates are dropping fast and Elon Musk even said many years ago that the world's biggest problem is population decline. People do not realize it but while the population of the planet continue to grow to 11-12 billion by 2100, it's only because people are living longer so that is why the numbers are going up for now...but once the lag catches up, the population will decrease so rapidly it'll come like a thief in the night and the world won't realize it until it's already too late. But there is a different theory. By 2100, the world will have changed so much that we won't need many people anyways. Nations will turn into corporations and automation, ai, robotics, neural link/brain net, cloning, genetic factories will change everything and the world will function on just 1 or 2 billion or even less without a problem. But we are not there yet. It's going to be really bad for long time before it gets good. Halving the world's population is going to create chaos anarchy and disorder as systems fall and societies lose their footing but only for a while until we adapt the new world order which will not need many humans.
hello average korean man! can you tell me what's the real average salary in south korea?
the problem for the industrialized world seems to be how to get more buck for your bang...
The style of this video seems very familiar...
Wonder what the birth rate of North Korea is
Interesting topic, but why is your style of talking and using the whiteboard the same as the videos of the "50 year old average Japanese man"?
Why not?
Most channels say the birth rate is low because of frigidity among men and women, then because of violence against women, but the Korean man lives in a patriarchal society.
no
@@AD-ln2xu what
I think the change would radicate in the fact that more moral and ethic values where shared in Korea in educational institutions, this would change the birth rate by far. And why is that? Well in kore most youngsters arround the age of 20 and 25 go and hang arround clubbing and have no manners with girls and the same goes for the girls, in fact if you count the body count of Korean women you would be shocked, they only have sex for pleasure and not for love/romance and function (wich is to make children). If ethic values where taught to them from an early age they would consider marriage even more in their late age and even would desire it. Something's gotta change!!! Much support from an Amazigh of North Africa my Korean brother!
Women aren't brood mares.
Don't blame only on women, blame the system.
@@vrishnisivakumaran1232 When did i say that, giving birth to a human beeing should never be forced on any woman, my point was that most of them are just hoes due to a high bodycount. Am i wrong in that?
I trust my maths with the East Asians. They don’t need calculators 😀
I feel like this is a problem that can be solved overnight. Allow immigrants. Give tax breaks to new parents. Companies give good maternal leave to mothers.
But Koreans cannot give jobs to immigrants. Their newly grads students couldn't even land a job for themselves.
Maybe you should make the video in Korean so Koreans can understand since they're the ones who need to listen the most not Americans. 😂
Why do you assume that Americans are the ony ones that speak English??
There are many Korean people who have studied overseas & speak english, he could be talking to them.
You americans are so self absorbed.
@@charzemc lol you didn't understand
immigration might save the birth rate. the reason why the USA is almost 2 is because of immigration. also, the work life pressure is horrible with long hours.
That was funny and cute when you lost your train of thought. ㅋㅋ Also though your numbers are very abstract just to show how quickly population can decrease, you also have to factor in children who die before reaching reproductive age and people who physically cannot reproduce, which makes the numbers even more dire.
Is this man Korean or from Philippines? His English doesn't sound like Korean English.
Fully Korean 🤣 I've been to the Philippines once though
Don’t worry, mate. There will be lots of AI robots doing jobs, so after some time there will be universal income. This will create opportunities to have more kids. Also, in the US and Western nations, they are taking in lots of refugees and immigrants. They are even letting in illegal immigrants. You guys could do something similar as well. Japan has breeding visas; you guys could do something similar. You have to fear Kim Jong-un more than your population.
5:49 아니요 Your population doesn't go down like that, women that give birth just don't suddenly die. 이상한 예문 이에요
7:00 Earlier you said that in 60 years your population will go down to 12.5% (200 -> 24) but here, numbers you have on paper says in 50 years you will have gone down to 44%. Why these numbers differ? Right, there is a 10 year difference but the difference is very large here and that 10 years can't account for the differences you show.
8:50 Expert says your population will go down to 40% in 75 years. 그차이들이랑 모르겠어요
I suggest most people don't really know what will happen. Japan went through the same thing, same fear on top of an economic crisis, result: Japan is still alive and kicking.
What is the reason behind the low birthrate in korea?
Too much work, expensive raising kids & shy men.
The reason is because of men who can't bother putting on a shirt while making a video online is extremely unattractive and a huge turn off for normal women with standards.
sorry to hear that as this can become a crysis in the future in my country Pakistan its the opposite its overpopulated which is also not a good thing Pakistan is rank at 5 th place in top 10 most populous countries.
It won’t disappear… you most likely will have to allow immigrates from other countries
That's how Britain tries to resolve this issue ( like in the 1930s ,during the great depression); then they blame the immigrants for their internal problems.
Yeah, it might happen, here in Poland they are taking in bangladeshi, ukrainians, pakistani to work hard labour at factories, etc. Nobody wants to take jobs there and the birth rate here is quite low. Koreans will have to take people from poorer countries to make up for work force eventually. Then people will get mad about migrants, because they're there to do jobs they don't wanna do, same old story.
You should have looked at 2024 fertility rate of South Korea, its 0.68
Belgium has a birth rate of 1,60. So that is ok. What I see the last years is that there are more babies than before. I saw a big difference after COVID actually.
A surface area of Earth (without Antarctica) is 135 000 000 sq km. On Earth live 8 mld of people. Average density of population on Earth is 59 people/sq km. South Korea has density more than 500 people/sq km. It's almost ten times overpopulated. How do you know that current count of people of S.Korea is optimal (be worried its decline)?
woah, almost sounds like women are important and valuable
Who knew?
hi bro,i want hear some sth about feminism truth,but i don know korean language,getting the whole info is limited,hope y can make a series of video about that!
OMG, did you forget to put on a shirt?
This guy will probably end up staying single and childless, because what normal woman with standards would find a man appealing or attractive who can't bother putting on a shirt and who thinks it's appropriate to make a shirtless video on the topic of South Korea's low birthrate problem. All the people defending him being shirtless are imo weirdos and have low standards.
Try to compare it with India😂
the way is to increase immigration and marriage with foreigners
웃통은 왜 안입으시고 하시는지 ㅋ
India missing
I’m wondering if a taboo, shyness, uncomfortableness about s*x is a factor in S Korea’s low birth rate.
I only say this because there are many poorer countries that don’t have a low birth rate, or at least not as severe of one. Rationally it seems like there HAS to be more factors than just the cost of raising children that’s contributing to this.
People in every country have to make financial sacrifices to have children, so why are people in S Korea seemingly not willing to make those same sacrifices? Is the competitive nature of people in S Korea so important culturally that people are willing to risk never having children in order to “win” the competition?
This is a very interesting, but also tragic topic.
A lot of people think that everything has to be ready before getting married. Like the house, financial issues etc
@@average_korean_man
Yes, thank you so much, someone else explained that to me in another of your videos comments & it makes a lot more sense to me now.
Is it generally viewed more as a mans responsibility to ensure everything is in place prior to marriage? In the US people marry and work towards those things together.
Blame global feminism and how HYPER materialistic women are over there on top of the stress men deal with.
It’s just my opinion korean men should try to marry foreigner
Most western countries supplement their birth rate with very high immigration levels. Much of this is driven by taxation reasons ie we import adult workers who can immediately contribute to the tax system. This enables social welfare to continue.
Please make a hangout with the Japanese man
😳❤💯
There are sperm banks haha
The answer is immigration and becoming totally English friendly.
No it's not, that's a way to destroy the society. At least with a large elderly population the entitlement can be cut. Immigration is only a temporary solution and doesn't fix the issue
Whatever, the consequences will happen after us. It also will happen gradually, just a graduall population decline, nothing bad. It is definetly not on the brink of disappearance with the population of 50 million people it will require thousand years to dissappear. Yes, population would be poorer, definetely, but it will happen gradually and just instead of Korea need to invest in more promising countries. In Korea the poorer pop will become the more babies it will have. So all is balanced.
Likely well less than thousands of years.