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isitts
Joined: 25 Dec 2008
Location: Korea
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 Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 6:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Swampfox10mm wrote: |
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| You should be more concerned about South Korea's tragically low birth rate. |
Oh, how tragic.
I might even be able to get a seat on the subway one day. |
Yes, tragic.
An increasingly small number of people will be caring financially for a proportionally large elderly population.
And, as any fool should be able to understand, 40% fewer students will equal fewer classes, fewer schools (there are already too many, and they are on the decline) and less of a need for English teachers. |
It's funny how not that long ago people were all concerned about overpopulation of the planet and how tragic that would be. Now the declining birthrate is the new tragedy. |
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isitts
Joined: 25 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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| ...And I'm sure the one child policy makes China a much better future prospect. |
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World Traveler
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| Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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As usual, isitts (PatrickGHBusan Jr.), you really don't know what you are talking about.
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| Ms Hong�s decision is the new norm in South Korea, where the fertility rate has fallen to the lowest level in the developed world. The country had a birth rate of 1.2 children per woman in 2010: even China, with its long-established one-child policy, had a rate of 1.6. |
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/3be6ec40-4dd4-11e2-9e71-00144feab49a.html#axzz2GsW9ep42 |
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