The first domestic space station drama, which had a production cost of 500 billion won, ended amid harsh criticism. Gong ...

The birth rate in Asia's fourth-largest economy has been falling since 2015, when the figure was 1.24. Statistics Korea attributes the improvement to the increase in the number of women in the ...

This rise comes after years of sustained decline, which saw South Korea’s birth rate become the lowest in the world. Officials attributed the increase to a surge in marriages, which jumped by 14 ...

The country's fertility rate — the average number of babies a woman is expected to have during her reproductive life — stood at 0.75 in 2024, according to Statistics Korea. In 2023, the birth ...

South Korea has one of the world's most rapidly shrinking and aging societies. Now, for the first time in nine years, the country has reported a birth rate increase. After nearly a decade of birth ...

SEOUL, Feb. 26 (UPI) --South Korea's birth rate rose in 2024, the country's statistics agency reported on Wednesday, marking the first increase in nine years in a slight respite from a looming ...