The Yoon administration is setting up a ministry to address Korea’s plunging birth rate.
The new Ministry of Population Strategy Planning will seek to promote healthy parenting support an aging society and encourage effective immigration policies.
The head of this ministry will also serve as the country’s Deputy Prime Minister for Social Affairs a position that is currently being undertaken by the Education Minister.
Korea has the world’s lowest fertility rate at 0-point-7-2 as of last year.
Accordingly back in June President Yoon Suk Yeol declared a state of national emergency and pledged an all-out campaign to tackle the alarming birth rate.
Source : Arirang TV, https://www.arirang.com/news/view?id=272613
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