More than 4,000 elementary, middle and high schools across Korea have shut their doors as the country’s student population shrinks, new data shows.
According to the Ministry of Education’s latest figures, revealed on Sunday by Rep. Jin Sun-mee of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea, since 1980, 4,008 schools under 17 regional education offices nationwide have closed as of March this year. During the period, the number of enrolled students decreased from 9.9 million to 5.07 million.
let’s not make value judgements like, i don’t like children until they have personalities and mortgages and my wife is an elementary school teacher. it takes all types in this world.
I don’t think you understand the problem, because lower is absolutely worse. A small decline in population is fine, the world probably has too many people already. But a steep decline like this is catastrophic for a country.
The fertility rate required to maintain population is around 2.1, having it at only 0.8 is really bad, making the South Korean population basically on a path to extinction within a few hundred years.
dude my degrees are better than your degrees in the subject but try to go off. “a steep decline like this is catastrophic for a country” no it isn’t, we want to believe it would be but the only steep population declines we’ve ever actually seen were from famine, war the like. Just because you read a book with a funny title does not give you an understanding of the choices people voluntarily make and that does not push a country to a cliff.
Funny then how your previous comment is completely disconnected from the real problem.
I think I’ll just block you, because you are too weird for me.