韩国出生率持续下降，首尔的小学陷入招生困境
Declining birth rates leave Seoul’s elementary schools struggling
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首尔560余所小学近日迎新，但一年级新生人数因出生率下降创历史新低，从2010年83,000人降至去年52,000人。专家预测今年或跌破40,000人，部分学校恐因生源不足面临关闭。
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近日，首尔560余所公立小学陆续举办了迎新活动，迎接新学年的一年级新生。在此期间，学生与家长们一同走访了各自分配的学校，熟悉校园环境，为新学期的开始做好准备。
今年，首尔约有53,000名儿童符合小学入学资格。然而，学龄人口的急剧减少使得该市一年级新生人数创下历史新低。这一现象折射出更广泛的人口趋势：随着出生率持续走低，学生人数逐年缩减。数据显示，首尔的一年级新生数量自2010年的83,000人逐年递减，2015年降至74,000人，2020年进一步减少至64,000人，而去年仅为52,000人。
尽管2024年符合入学资格的儿童有59,500名，但实际入学人数预计仅为52,000人左右。专家推测，考虑到约10%的适龄儿童因移居海外或健康问题未能入学，今年实际入学人数可能首次跌破40,000人大关。与去年相比，入学人数骤降99.3%，再度刷新历史最低纪录。
这一现状引发了广泛担忧。不仅在乡村地区，即便是在首尔这样的都市，部分学校也可能因生源不足而面临关闭的风险。教育界人士呼吁，相关部门应尽早采取措施，应对这一严峻挑战，以确保教育资源的合理配置和学生的就学权益。
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not a decline, it's a collapse
这哪是下降，简直是断崖式崩塌
wages, limit hours worked, 5 days extra holidays, make housing and childcare super cheap".
pretend I didnt hear that".
“涨工资、限工时、多5天假期，让住房和育儿费用便宜到家。”
政府：“我？我啥都没听到。”
is all about jobs, economic growth, and stability. Couples will not marry and/or have children if they do not have faith in their financial futures.
说到底还是工作、经济增长和稳定。要是对未来的经济没信心，夫妻们可不会结婚生子。
did say if you can't afford to take care of children, then don't have one.
他们确实说过，养不起孩子就别生。
lived in Korea for 7 months in 2019 in a smaller 300k city. I'm not joking, I haven't seen a single person under 14yrs there. Not anywhere I visited!
2019年我在韩国一个30万人口的小城市住了7个月。真没开玩笑，我愣是没见到一个14岁以下的孩子。我去过的地方都这样！
don't blame couples not wanting to have children, trying to have children in this economy is insane
我真不怪夫妻们不想生孩子，在这经济环境下生孩子简直是疯了。
is expensive....
啥都贵得离谱。
is happening around the world. School closures are occurring in America too in areas where there isn’t enough enrollment. I love South Korea. I studied abroad there. You can’t force people to have children or to preserve their culture. Eventually everything will even out. What needs to happen is everyone in declining nations needs to prepare for a large elderly population and a small working population.
全球都在上演这一幕。美国一些招生不足的地区也在关学校，我爱韩国，还在那儿留过学，可不能强求人生孩子或保留文化。最终一切都会平衡，人口减少的国家得为老龄化社会和劳动力减少做好准备。
is expensive and governments the world over are like what is causing this? In the U.S. they chose corporations over people and are now freaking out over low birth rates.
啥都贵得要命，各国政府还在问‘咋回事？’。在美国，他们选了企业而不是人民，现在对低出生率慌得一比。
world hostile like this , where wars, unemployment, high taxes, frauds, high work pressure, human exploitation are increasing day by day, i think world doesnt deserve children anymore
如今这敌意满满的世界，战争、失业、高税收、欺诈、高工作压力和剥削日益加剧，我觉得这世界已不配拥有孩子了。
western world is the same. I see personally young successful adults that dont plan any children at all. Nowadays, the focus is on traveling and enjoying luxurious life with a successful career. Family does not fit these criterias.
在西方世界也一样。我亲眼见到不少年轻有为的成年人压根不打算要孩子。如今，人们更爱旅行、享受奢华生活和事业有成。家庭可不符合这些标准。
intreesting cus every where you go in korea you see cuples around holding hands
有意思的是，在韩国无论去哪儿都能看到情侣手牵手。
of living is too high.
生活成本高得吓人。
my mom had me at 41 and I’m 24 now. I don’t see myself even thinking about kids until mid to late 30s, but also just because I might want a kid doesn’t mean I should have one. I think that goes for many people. Just because you want it, can you provide a good life for it. Especially A stable one financially.
另外，我妈41岁生的我，我现在24岁。我觉得自己要到35岁以后才会考虑孩子的事，但即便我想要孩子，也不意味着我该生。我觉得很多人都这么想。光想生孩子，你能给孩子好的生活吗？尤其是经济上的稳定。
are expensive. Except!
are cheap, girlfriends are cheap, hotels are cheap, contraception is cheap.
together culture doesn't equal to having a family life.
孩子很烧钱。不过！
男朋友便宜，女朋友便宜，酒店便宜，避孕措施便宜。
同居文化可不等于家庭生活。
over 59000 were eligible why were only 52000 admitted - that seems a little messed up that over 7000 children were not allowed to go to school. All children deserve to go to school.
如果超过59000人有资格入学，为啥只有52000人被录取？这有点不对劲啊，7000多个孩子被拒之门外。所有孩子都该有学上。
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will happen in America in the next 4-6 years. 90s kids are barely having babies
这种情况4到6年后会出现在美国。90后几乎都不生娃。
birthrate dropped from 0.72 to 0.65...this will only get worse and not better....if we were fish or bees we would talk about colony collapse
出生率从0.72降到0.65……这只会越来越糟，不会好转……要是我们是鱼或蜜蜂，早就谈群体崩溃了。
the basic necessities of the people and watch birth rates increase.
保障人民的基本生活需求，出生率自然就上去了。
wild how people glorify SK as a utopia because it’s not NK when it’s still pretty bad to live in
人们把韩国吹成乌托邦，就因为它不是朝鲜，可生活在那儿还是很糟糕，这太荒唐了。
guess guilt tripping is less expensive than giving parents actual money to help them have kids
我猜，让父母感到内疚比直接给钱帮他们养孩子成本低多了。
your wives, daughters and girls with love and respect
should men and women treat each other with respect when grandparents and parents are afraid that they will not be able to protect their daughters? 9th room is a good example of this. as long as it is not possible to treat both sexes with respect, no one sees the need to change anything. Parents who manage to nurture their children with love and respect in a rapidly changing society between culture, society and history has my absolute respect.
用爱和尊重对待妻子、女儿和女孩。
当祖父母和父母担心无法保护女儿时，男女为何要彼此尊重？“第九间教室”就是个典型例子。只要无法平等对待两性，就没人觉得有必要改变。在文化、社会和历史快速变迁中，能用爱和尊重养育孩子的父母，我绝对尊重。
go to school for alot of hours and have to study multiple hours after. Then they have pressure to find a good employment to just barely have enough for a apartment. Usually squezing 50 hours a week. Its a mercy not having kids and bringing them to those standards
人们上学时间超长，之后还得学习好几个小时，然后面临找好工作的压力，才能勉强租得起公寓。通常在每周工作50小时的情况下，不生孩子、不让他们经历这些，是种慈悲。
contributing to the birth decline here in the United States.
我为美国的出生率下降‘出了一份力’。
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special attention to students due to teacher and student ratio
由于师生比例，学生得到了更多特别关注。
there is a teacher shortage everywhere in Europe. HMM
与此同时，欧洲各地都缺老师。嗯。
extra days holidays, low salary, more work days, has a penalty if you somehow has a kid (in Korea), housing and bills are expensive, yet the government act like they never heard that
多几天假期，工资低，工作日多，要是有了孩子（在韩国）还会被罚，住房和账单贵得要命，政府却装聋作哑。
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children, our world has no future.
没了孩子，我们的世界就没未来了。
not enticing for a woman to marry, lose her independence (sometimes rights) and to have to work as well as take care of her husband. Why would they want that? Men need to step up if they want a wife and family and think 50/50.
对女性来说，结婚、失去独立（有时是权利），还得工作、照顾丈夫，毫无吸引力。她们为啥要这样？男性若想要妻子和家庭，就得承担起责任，考虑平等分担。
economic opportunities, no children. Why would you bring children into poverty?!
没经济机会，就没孩子。你为啥要把孩子带到贫困中？！
and here in Latin America there is nowhere to sit in the schools. Bad roofs, lack of teachers among other social problems that the poor face. What a beautiful school that was in the news. I hope one day all the children in the world can attend a place like this and learn a lot.
哇，在拉丁美洲，学校里连个座位都没有，屋顶破破烂烂，缺老师，还有其他穷人面临的诸多社会问题，新闻里那所学校真漂亮。希望有一天，全世界的孩子都能去这样的地方学习，学到很多东西。
happy for the children not being born, wish I was one of them
真为那些没出生的孩子高兴，真希望我也是其中之一。
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make children for a world that is literally going to subject them to servitude.. how can any of us feel good about this? What is the human agenda?
为啥要为一个将让他们沦为奴隶的世界生育孩子……我们怎能对此心安理得？人类到底是咋想的？
you didn't mention is that Korea tends to have small schools in each neighborhood. Particularly elementary schools are small and in a cluster of apartment buildings. That is probably the most common pattern I've seen in my 30 years traveling to Korea. The US mind can't comprehend this because the US has nothing like this anywhere in the US. Kids in Korea generally walk to Elementary and Middle school. High School might require a bus or subway.
你没提的是，韩国每个社区的学校通常都很小。尤其是小学，通常位于公寓楼群中。这是我30年来去韩国旅行时看到的最常见模式。美国人无法理解这一点，因为美国任何地方都没有这样的情况。韩国的孩子通常步行去小学和初中，高中可能需要坐公交或地铁。
latest 0.67 TFR(total fertility rate)
1: 30 kids
2(children of class 1): 10 kids(15 x 0.67, half of 30 assumed female)
3(children of class 2): 3 kids(5 x 0.67, rounded).
everyone points at their government, remember this has never happened before. I doubt they feel much besides worry and confusion too
用最新的0.67总生育率（TFR）算：
第一代：30个孩子
第二代（第一代的孩子）：10个孩子（0.67乘以15，假设30人中一半是女性）
第三代（第二代的孩子）：3个孩子（0.67乘以5，四舍五入）
在大家指责政府之前，要记住这种情况前所未见，我猜他们除了担忧和困惑，也做不了太多。
Korea could just wait 30 or more yrs and there would be no South korean army to oppose them
朝鲜只需再等30多年，就没了韩国军队能与之对抗了。
the adjustment period nothing else.
a smaller population is good for the city. It's overfilled and to many people apply to the same 10 jobs. So the boss can basically enslave them for peanuts
will have a better city and more easily get good jobs in the future
这只是调整期，别无他因。
人口减少对城市有好处。现在人口过剩，10个岗位有好多人抢，老板基本可以用低薪压榨员工。
未来他们会拥有更好的城市，更容易找到好工作
the Korean American population is growing at a very fast rate.
但韩裔美国人数量正在快速增长。
Koreas are best examples of dystopian Com...ism and dystopian Capitalism
南朝鲜分别是反乌托邦GCZY和反乌托邦资本主义的最佳例子。
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the bright side, Amazing teachers to students ratio.
往好处想，师生比例变得惊人。
Vietnam, birth rate 2024 is 1,91 children/woman.
people happy with single life.
在越南，2024年的出生率是每位女性1.91个孩子。
年轻人乐于过单身生活。
4days work week without any extra pressure, cut down housing prices and you're all set for baby factory
实行每周4天工作制，没有额外压力，降低房价，你就能开启“生育工厂”模式。
blame it on the rising cost of living, stress due to competitive environment where parents don't want to bring a new life in this world and of course part blame it on the current generation of people who are happy staying single.
部分原因是生活成本上升，在竞争激烈的环境中，父母不想把新生命带到这个世界上，当然也部分是因为当前一代人乐于单身。
news! What about poor or homeless people??? Why need extra babies????? People are so stupid.
好消息！那穷人或无家可归的人怎么办？？？为啥需要额外的孩子？？？人们真傻。
is expensive, work is hell, pay is poor, and beauty standards are crazy, government and chebols don’t care to implement changes
啥都贵，工作像地狱，工资低，审美标准疯狂，政府和财阀却不关心实施改变。
sense. My mom has 5 siblings. My dad has 14 siblings. I have two siblings. I have one child. My brother has one child.
说得通。我妈有5个兄弟姐妹。我爸有14个兄弟姐妹。我有2个兄弟姐妹。我有一个孩子。我弟弟有一个孩子。
time i see that have a child in South Corea is usually 5 to 6 times more expensive than the average of the world...well...this is nothing more than the expect !
上次我看到在韩国养孩子通常比世界平均水平贵5到6倍……好吧……这只是意料之中的事！
an Indian we are facing opposite problem low population is always good for everything
作为一个印度人，我们面临的是相反的问题，低人口对一切都有好处。
OVER IT ALREADY !
别再纠结了！
check the baby box u will how many babies are dropping off
如果查看育儿箱，你会看到有多少婴儿被遗弃。
you're burdening the youth with expectations for measly wages while living with ridiculous Inflations. I guess, we saw the aftermath
如果在高通胀下，你还用微薄的工资给年轻人施加期望，我想我们已经看到了后果。
were they doing during lockdown
他们在封锁期间都干了啥
Here in Australia, I see Millions of Koreans coming in, they look depressed as a single and said they can’t find partner, or couples who live in together only have sex but don’t want children and have multiple partners sometimes . Todays generations don’t want to follow old style marriage. They just need to switch between multiple boyfriends girlfriends and then when after age 35+ they start to realise to find a permanent partner to settle down but don’t want baby at that point due to financial struggles
确实，在澳大利亚，我看到数百万韩国人涌入，他们单身时看起来很沮丧，说找不到伴侣，或者同居的情侣只发生性关系但不想要孩子，有时还有多个伴侣。现在的年轻一代不想遵循旧式的婚姻模式，他们只是在多个男女朋友之间切换，然后到了35岁以上，他们开始意识到要找一个长期伴侣安定下来，但那时由于经济压力，不想要孩子。
going to be in the United States in the mere future.
这在未来不久的美国也会出现。
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I don’t have money to spend, now you want me to spend money on a child I can’t even raise! Girl bye!
姑娘！我没钱花，现在你还想让我花钱养一个我都养不起的孩子！再见了您呐！
this good? Students probably receive much better education with a smaller group of kids.
这不好吗？学生人数少了，教育质量可能更好。
a blessing for the AI changes to come, no issues on why working with robots and their economies will be healthier than over populated countries
这对即将来临的人工智能变革是件好事，和机器人一起工作，经济会比人口过剩的国家更健康，没啥问题。
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the opposite over in the USA. The schools are overflowing and we don’t have enough teachers. Maybe we should move to Seoul
在美国情况正好相反。学校人满为患，我们没有足够的老师。也许我们应该搬到首尔。
best response to politicians. I've told my only child to be the last generation. If one brings any other human into this world , one only ends up enriching the politicians.
这是对政客最好的回应。我告诉我唯一的孩子，他们这一代将是最后一代。如果有人把其他生命带到这个世界上，最终只会让政客受益。
seen this news already
早就看到这新闻了
dont wanna have children they dont wanna/cant raise coz they themselves cant afford to live properly ...what a shocker.
人们不想生他们不愿或无法抚养的孩子，因为他们自己都活不起……真是令人震惊。
competition, it's a good.
竞争少了，这是好事。
need India to follow
就等印度跟上了。
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people a re getting smarter of having kids because of poor living condition poverty etc
是啊，人们因为生活条件差、贫困等，生孩子变得更谨慎了。
is soley responsible for these
政府对这些负有全部责任。
is not a mere decline this is a collapse we are witnessing.
这不是简单的下降，我们正在目睹的是崩溃。
rather have a couple of cats and a dog than a kid.
animals wont stress me out
having a kid is another responsibility. Responsibility=rising costs= NO
for some miracle the minimum wage in my country is gonna hit “livable” then Id consider having a kid.
goodness for egg cell freezing facilities
我宁愿养几只猫和一只狗，也不想要孩子。
这些动物不会让我有压力。
再说，生孩子是另一份责任。责任=成本上升=不要。
如果奇迹发生，我国家的最低工资达到“可生活”的水平，我会考虑生孩子。
多亏了卵子冷冻技术。
talk about birth rate if their economoy still high, everything expensive . many struggles work 24 hours
如果经济还高企，啥都贵，很多人24小时都在挣扎着工作，就别谈出生率了。
time, they should report what numbers that the birth rates should ideally happen? because according to figure, the numbers is decreased, but maybe it is the "ideal" case for the country.
下次，他们应该报道出生率的理想数字是多少？因为根据数据，数字下降了，但也许这对国家来说是“理想”的情况。
2070 S.Korea might even struggle to keep their status as a country.
到2070年，韩国可能甚至难以保持其国家地位。
can't dedicate the time kids deserve.
impossible.
你无法投入孩子应得的时间。
这不可能。
going to be a lot of elderly people with no support as this means less future doctors and nurses etc this is not a good thing.
未来会有很多没有支持的老年人，因为这意味着未来医生和护士等会减少，这不是好事。
Korea like the U.S. single people would live and work in Seoul and married with kids would move outside of Seoul to commute or work remotely. Elders would downsize to smaller units and there would be supply of 3 and 4 bedrooms that families would move into. People would not save hundreds of thousands of dollars USD before getting married.
如果韩国像美国一样，单身人士会在首尔生活和工作，已婚有孩的会搬到首尔外通勤或远程工作，老年人会搬到更小的住所，这样就会有3室和4室的房子供家庭入住，人们在结婚前就不用存数十万美元了。
is happening in most first world nations. It's the housing its just too much.
这在大多数发达国家都在发生，住房问题太严重了。
can even see most parents look like 40 years old.
你甚至可以看到大多数家长看起来像40岁。
kids will have less friends because there will be less kids in there schools, coupled with the rise of social media/ technology being more of a part of kids lives and loneliness already being such a big issue for gen z and younger, this birth rate decline will only exacerbate this loneliness. This is so sad!
这些孩子的朋友会更少，因为他们的学校里孩子会更少，再加上社交媒体/技术在孩子生活中占比增加，孤独已经是Z世代和更年轻一代的大问题，出生率下降只会加剧这种孤独，这太悲伤了！
a luxury to have a child these days .. life has become way too expensive and its impossible to save for a house when a basic home is almost a million .
如今生孩子是种奢侈……生活变得太贵，当一套普通房子几乎要一百万时，攒钱买房几乎不可能。
rates are higher in poorer countries so it’s not about the economy it’s about women being given choices not to have children and have careers and that being socially acceptable.
贫穷国家的出生率更高，所以这和经济无关，而是关于女性被给予选择不要孩子、拥有事业，并且这在社会上是可以接受的。
paid incentives to have kids, maybe like 30k per kid
生孩子给补贴，比如每个孩子3万。
Deserve it for over an OVER emphasis on academic results and a pro-Company stance with NO tangible benefits or Help like additional leaves for Working parents to have kids! Singapore will be next!
哈哈……活该过度强调学术成绩，支持公司立场，却没有任何实质性的好处或帮助，比如给有孩子的职场父母额外假期！新加坡将是下一个！
will rise if you do this to your own country Korean people don't do the mistake
如果你对自己的国家这样做，移民会增加，韩国人可别犯这错。
are signs for a change in Korea’s education system, hope the government listens.
这是韩国教育系统变革的信号，希望政府能听进去。
make an agreement with the US, there's lot's of people looking for a place to go
让我们和美国达成协议，有很多人在找地方去。
not just a question of things being expensive. Women in Korea are currently following a movement where they don't date or have children and interact with men as least as possible as a way to combat the extreme misogyny there
这不仅仅是东西贵的问题。韩国女性目前正追随一种运动，她们不约会、不生孩子，尽量少和男性接触，以此来对抗那里的极端厌女症。
the decline of the Korean individual economic unit (IEU), Recommend replacing these units with foreign (IEU), the Indian IEU Is a standard model for the task, All hail Samsung
鉴于韩国个体经济单位（IEU）的下降，建议用外国的（IEU）来替代，印度的IEU是这项任务的标准模型，全都要向三星致敬。
SK the society is hellah toxic. And the young adults knows it. The job market Forces them to work 12 hours a day. Plus High prices. You aint got time.
in SK having a house first is biggest flex
在韩国，社会环境糟糕透顶，年轻人都知道这一点，就业市场迫使他们每天工作12小时，再加上高物价，你根本没时间。
在韩国，先有房子是最大的炫耀资本。
koreans needs more times and money for themselves. Also they needs to change ther cultural perception on both men and women. If women are entitled to be on the job market, men are entitled be at home. This is a private matter between couples and family. Put in tax credits for family who are living with elderly retired parents as well.
韩国人需要更多的时间和金钱给自己，他们还需要改变对男女的文化认知，如果女性有权进入就业市场，男性也有权在家，这是夫妻和家庭之间的私事，也应该为和退休老人一起生活的家庭提供税收抵免。
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think this is a non-issue. school isn't everything. let people live their own life after high school or college graduation. nobody wants to hear phone calls from teachers hearing how badly their kid is doing, or how they were frxd for something they didn't do or how they'll end up in remedial classes or any toxicity in general going on at school. I'm not dealing with teachers nor raising a disappointment.
我觉得这根本不是问题，学校不是一切，让人们在高中或大学毕业后过自己的生活吧，没人想接到老师的电话，听他们说自己的孩子表现多差，或者被冤枉做了没做的事，或者要被分到补习班，或者学校里普遍存在的各种毒性问题。我可不想和老师打交道，也不想养个让人失望的孩子。
South Korea ditches its long work hours culture, its extra education culture and ceases to teach women to chase their careers in their 20s which are a woman's prime child bearing years with problems starting after 30 over starting families, their population will never recover. Only stay at home wives and moms can recover a nations population, when both parents work they simply don't have the time to raise children in addition to increasing their own costs by having to pay for child care and increasing housing costs duel incomes mean more disposable which means higher bids on homes. The cost of goods and services rise as income rise.
除非韩国摒弃长时间工作文化、额外教育文化，不再教导女性在20多岁（女性的最佳生育年龄）追求事业，否则他们的人口永远不会恢复。只有全职主妇和妈妈才能恢复一个国家的人口，当父母双方都工作时，他们根本没有时间抚养孩子，还得支付育儿费用，增加住房成本。双份收入意味着更多的可支配收入，这会导致房价竞标更高。随着收入增加，商品和服务的成本也会上升。
depressing. South Korea is going to have major employment and economic issues.
这太令人沮丧了，韩国将面临重大的就业和经济问题。
should start making Kdrama with 7 siblings in it. All of them found their true love and had 7 children. Then those children had 7 children. And so on
他们应该开始制作有7个兄弟姐妹的韩剧，他们都找到了真爱，生了7个孩子，然后这些孩子又生了7个孩子。如此类推。
make 130k a year, and i still feel like getting married and having children will ruin me. I even moved back in with my mom to pump more into my Retirement just turned 29
我一年赚13万，但我仍然觉得结婚生子会毁了我。我甚至搬回和妈妈一起住，以便为退休多存点钱，刚满29岁。
just talk abt birth rates but school are not mafe free in korea,they got a lot of billions dollars to deal abt this,but none inws wat happened to tht money.
人们只谈出生率，但韩国的学校并不是免费的，他们有几百亿美元来处理这个问题，但没人知道这些钱去哪儿了。
society is fucked up. The bully culture there is nuts, no wonder the people have gone to "I hate humans anyway" mode
他们的社会乱套了。那里的霸凌文化太疯狂了，难怪人们都进入了“反正我恨人类”的模式。
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with population going down, home prices will also decline?
随着人口下降，房价也会下降吗？
you have to do is compare mandatory military countries vs non-mandatory military countries. israel is an outlier in that their orthodox religious people were exempt from military service. now what do military have to do? very few actually engage in real war so pick another answer. yt won't let me say the answer because of "freedom".
你只需要比较强制军事国家和非强制军事国家，以色列是个例外，因为他们的正统宗教人士被免除了兵役，现在军队到底有啥用？很少有人真正参与战争，所以选另一个答案吧。YouTube不让我因为“自由”而说答案。
are already too many on that tiny peninsula
那个小半岛上的人已经太多了。
no, no new friends for you.
哦不，你没有新朋友了。
what eligible children means?
解释一下“有资格的孩子”是什么意思？
: Two dystopias in a single peninsula
韩国：一个半岛上的两个反乌托邦。
easy some politicians will come and tax or tarrif the unborn now
是不是有些政客现在会对未出生的人征税或收费了？
be entirely fair, props to the people for not having ridiculous amounts of children irresponsibly. Yes, it sucks that birth rates are declining, but it simply means that the parents are responsible enough to know what they can afford in a twisted economy and aren't going to bring children into the world that they can't reasonably care for well. I actually think more places and cultures in the world should take after an example like that, we'd have less children in poor conditions and more stable families.
公平地说，应该为那些没有不负责任地生一大堆孩子的人点赞，是的，出生率下降确实让人沮丧，但这只是意味着父母足够负责任，知道在扭曲的经济中自己能负担什么，不会把无法好好抚养的孩子带到这个世界上。我真的觉得世界上更多地方和文化应该以这样的例子为榜样，这样我们就会有更少生活在贫困条件下的孩子，和更稳定的家庭。
lack day care workers and teachers in Germany.
在德国，我们缺乏托儿所工作人员和老师。
according to nature.
一切顺其自然。
yesterday i read in news article the South Korean is celebrating because in 2024 peoples gave birth to more babies than 2023. Now youtube gave me this news
就在昨天，我在新闻文章中读到韩国人在庆祝，因为2024年出生的婴儿比2023年多。现在YouTube给我推送了这个新闻。
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strongly encourage my son not to have kids especially in this awful economy that hasn’t seemed to improved here in the USA his my mom and i are struggling even with jobs
我强烈建议我儿子不要生孩子，尤其是在美国这个糟糕的经济环境下，似乎没有改善，我和他妈妈即使有工作也在挣扎。
gotta put down the anime and go outside once in a while...
你得放下动漫，偶尔出去走走……
it's been said that in so called modern- advanced civilisation, men aren't even able to take care of their wives and children . This is just basic neutral family. And this civilisation is so advanced that they not only able to take care of children and wife but also they destroy their companions of all living beings along with the mother nature who feeds all of us.
not trying to make joke but the fact it is true and sad and we can see most of situation is like this.
humans are first to suffer who greedily exploiting everything
if young population is decreasing, these companies won't change but they use these AI, ROBOTS who make their work for free ( one time investment and repairs etc) and much faster and efficient.
will suffer more and more cause this is the consequences of abusing all other living beings as well as nature. Remember onky humans have power and intelligence to make a living society much better(just using resources available naturally ) or worser ( artificial methods, pollutions)
是啊，据说在所谓现代先进的文明中，男人甚至无法照顾他们的妻子和孩子，这只是基本的家庭，而这个文明如此先进，他们不仅无法照顾孩子和妻子，还破坏了生态平衡，以及养育我们的大自然。
我不是在开玩笑，这是事实，既真实又悲伤，我们能看到大多数情况都是这样。
我们人类是第一个贪婪地剥削一切而受苦的物种。
即使年轻人口在减少，这些公司也不会改变，他们使用人工智能、机器人，这些可以免费为他们工作（一次性投资和维修等），而且更快更高效。
穷人会越来越受苦，因为这是滥用所有其他生物和自然的后果。记住，只有人类有力量和智慧，可以让生活社会变得更好（只是利用自然可用的资源），或者更糟（污染）。
many are they? 5 kids per class??
他们有多少人？每班5个孩子？？
you make everyone have to live at work just to survive people stop having kids because they can't afford them
当你们让每个人不得不为了生存而住在工作地时，人们就会停止生孩子，因为他们负担不起。
many Koreans that don’t live in Korea
有很多韩国人并不住在韩国。
what happens when it's expensive to have kids. I don't think it's exclusive to SK.
这就是生孩子贵的结果。我觉得这不只是韩国的问题。
smarter you get, the less you wanna get married or have kids...
你越聪明，就越不想结婚或生孩子……
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look likes collapsing
看起来像是要崩溃了。
still they aren't doing anything
他们却仍然什么都不做。
is what happens when your population is too educated and works too hard. The focus is entirely on production and not family. It is no coincidence that the highest births are in the least developed nations. It’s an interesting cycle.
当人口受教育程度过高、工作过于努力时，就会出现这种情况，重心完全在生产上，而不是家庭，最不发达国家出生率最高绝非巧合，这是一个有趣的循环。
women must be like unicorns out there lol
孕妇在外面肯定像独角兽一样稀有，哈哈。
women with equality and more respect.
平等对待女性，给予更多尊重。
is The Children of Men. It's not fiction anymore
这就是《人类之子》。这不再是小说了。
is expected to automate a significant portion of jobs in the future. As a result, Korea, with its low birth rate, will emerge as the most sustainable country on Earth.
未来，人工智能预计将自动化大量工作。因此，韩国凭借其低出生率，将成为地球上最可持续的国家。
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have 3 kids age 7, 4 and 2 months old. If i move to Seoul will you provide us the visa?
我有3个孩子，7岁、4岁和2个月大，如果我搬到首尔，你们会给我们签证吗？
need foreigners to full fill that
你们需要外国人来填补这个空缺。
wonder why employers are really gungho about ai and robotics. They seem to be so excited about not having to pay people. Who will they sell their products though if there's no people?? House, Land, Electricity ,Water and food are so expensive now, no one at the right age to have one wants to do it anymore
我想知道为什么雇主对人工智能和机器人如此热衷，他们似乎对不用给人付工资感到很兴奋，但如果没有人，他们卖给谁产品呢？？现在房子、土地、电、水和食物都这么贵，到了该成家的年龄的人都不想成家了。
look like there needs to be a change. Get to it or have no babies. Not everyone is like me who doesn’t want any kids period. There are those that do but either the men are not growing themselves and are demanding. Or wages and jobs, living, no family time etc.
确实看起来需要改变了，要么改变，要么就别生孩子。并不是每个人都像我一样，坚决不要孩子，有些人是想生的，但要么男性自己不成长还要求多，要么工资、工作、生活、没有家庭时间等等问题。
lot of comments are saying "money". If this was true, we shouldn't see the same problem happening in countries where people have high income and enjoy a luxury lifestyle.
problem is global whether you have money or not. So I don't think "money" is the correct answer. It may be one part of the puzzle, but not the whole answer to this problem.
很多评论都在说“钱”。如果这是真的，我们就不应该在那些人们收入高、享受奢华生活方式的国家看到同样的问题。
这个问题是全球性的，无论你有钱还是没钱。所以我认为“钱”不是正确答案，它可能是问题的一部分，但不是整个问题的答案。
should follow Korea step
印度应该效仿韩国的做法。
world is too full of humans. It's good to lower the numbers.
世界上人类太多了，减少人数是好事。
children wait for next 3 years this will be 14k children next 6 year less than 1000
5.3万儿童等待接下来的3年，这将是1.4万儿童，接下来的6年将少于1000。
what happends when everyone wants to be a kpop and celebrity. No kids
当每个人都想成为韩流明星和名人时，就会这样。没有孩子。
Kpop/Kdrama standard killing their society. lol
韩流/韩剧标准正在毁掉他们的社会。哈哈。
of Japans population will be gone by 2050
到2050年，日本一半的人口将消失。
must make incentive for having baby at least $250,000 each instead of funding military nonsense. Im childfree by choice but if this ever happens I will consider
政府必须为生孩子提供激励，至少每个孩子25万美元，而不是把钱花在军事这种没用的事情上，我选择无子女，但如果真有这样的政策，我会考虑生孩子。
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capitalism, most countries are struggling to persuade hard-pressed working class people to have children. Socialism, as ever, is the solution.
在资本主义下，大多数国家都在努力说服生活困苦的工人阶级生孩子。社会主义，一如既往，是解决方案。
babies reaching school age. It will take years yo normalize
疫情宝宝到了上学年龄，要花好几年才能恢复正常。
is good news. Declining birth means less people, less pollution, more space. I dont see the issue
这是好消息，出生率下降意味着更少的人口，更少的污染，更多的空间。我没看到任何，问题。
is what you get for stopping building houses.
这就是你们停止建房的后果。
only solution is dont get married.
唯一的解决办法就是别结婚。
it mandatory just like military
像军事一样强制执行。
is so sad. Making friends at school is a core memory for me.
这太悲伤了。在学校交朋友是我最刻骨铭心的记忆。
it help if they stop selling contraceptives?
如果他们停止销售避孕用品会有帮助吗？
make people work more. That will fix your problem.
那就让人们多工作，这会解决你的问题。
are gifts from God Almightly!
孩子是上帝的礼物！
lol. It's good be happy.
“危机”哈哈。开心就好。
industry rewarded single women, pushed mothers to forget about maternity or relegate it, pushed father's to keep working while children came up, got society used to their products, confort, they designed places for single people and pleasure, parties and alcohol, endless fast fun, and now they want they society they got used to live "single" lives to enter into the cycle of procreating, it's going to be difficult.
工业奖励单身女性，促使母亲忘记或忽视母性，促使父亲在孩子成长时继续工作，让社会习惯于他们的产品、舒适，他们为单身人士和享乐、派对和酒精、无尽的快速乐趣设计了场所，现在他们希望他们已经习惯于过“单身”生活的社会进入生育循环，这将很困难。
sorry but that is disturbing. Not wanting to have kids can lead to so many problems that are not being talked about enough. I love South Korea and its culture, the people and the country in general, but to think that in a few years the population might go extinct is beyond scary. People have to become patriotic, know their true colors and identity over there, and the misogynistic society that is harming pregnant women overthere needs to be stopped....
对不起，这太令人不安了，不想生孩子会导致很多问题，而这些问题并没有被充分讨论，我爱韩国及其文化，爱那里的人民和国家，但想到几年后人口可能会灭绝，这太可怕了。人们必须变得爱国，了解他们的真实本色和身份，而那里伤害孕妇的厌女社会需要被制止……
are a lot of factors on why this is happening. First is misogyny mostly in South Korea. The second being that life is too expensive. Also, adults in this generation knows that having a kid isn't easy as you need to be financially, mentally, and physically healthy to have them. This generation is responsible and the governments needs to actually solve the inner problem instead of pushing us to have kids solely for their benefit and power.
这种情况发生有很多因素，首先是韩国的厌女症，其次是生活成本太高。此外，我们这一代的成年人知道生孩子并不容易，因为你需要在经济、心理和身体上都健康才能生孩子。我们这一代人很有责任感，政府需要真正解决内部问题，而不是为了他们自己的利益和权力而逼我们生孩子。
control was a horrendous idea
计划生育是个可怕的主意。
first graders is still a lot. when will it get to 100?
4万一年级新生还是很多，什么时候会降到100？
we should move to japan lol
也许我们应该搬到日本，哈哈。
in more immigrants who are willing to have many kids.
引进更多愿意多生孩子的移民。
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you like some immigrants kids my seoul
你想不想要一些移民的孩子，我的首尔。
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juice r bhnd thz
果汁在这后面。
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blame pornography and video games... Too many grown men spend too much time looking at a screen. Women too, social media... Don't put off getting married and this trend about trying to be as promiscuous as possible. It just makes people unstable.
我指责色情和电子游戏……太多成年男性花太多时间盯着屏幕。女性也一样，社交媒体……别推迟结婚，也别追随尽可能放荡的潮流，这只会让人变得不稳定。
import babies from philipane and vietnam they have too much babies they look like koreans just need to learn korean langauge and culture
请从菲律宾和越南进口婴儿，他们婴儿太多了，他们长得像韩国人，只需要学习韩语和韩国文化。
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me a job that is sufficient and more to raise a family. I am asian can pass as 100% Korean. I'll find meself a Korean lady. I'll give u kids with a different surname but 100% Korean pedigree
给我一份足够养家糊口的工作，我是亚洲人，可以完全冒充韩国人，我会找一个韩国女性，我会给你生孩子，虽然姓不同，但绝对是纯正的韩国血统。
in the Indians
引进印度人。
price of "modern values"
“现代价值观”的代价。