Asia

Why Koreans don’t Want to Have Children? South Korea’s Fertility Rate Hits Record Low

South Korea, the country with the lowest fertility rate in the world for many years, has seen its fertility rate drop to 0.72 in 2023, far lower than the basic fertility rate of 2.1 required to stabilize the population structure. The number of newborns dropped by 7.7% throughout the year. The fertility rate in the fourth quarter of last year fell to a new record low of 0.65. The number of newborns was 3,905 fewer than in the same period in 2022.

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The World is Crazy for Travel, Searches for Taiwan and Taipei have soared

International travel has continued to heat up since the epidemic subsided. People tend to search for countries or cities worth visiting online. International travel and accommodation websites predict that the countries with the largest increase in searches in 2024 will be Japan and Taiwan in Asia. The top two tourist cities searched by French people are Osaka and Tokyo in Japan, while Taipei ranks fifth.

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