Young South Koreans Offered Hundreds of Dollars To Start Dating

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Young South Koreans Offered Hundreds of Dollars To Start Dating​


Published Sep 05, 2024 at 8:41 AM EDT

South Korea's Ambitious Plan To Rescue Its Population

By Anezka Pichrtova

Live News Reporter

A South Korean city district is aiming to tackle the declining birth rate in the country by paying its citizens to start a relationship and have children, the Korean Times reported.

The Saha-gu district office in Busan is planning a matchmaking event in October, and offering 1 million won ($750) to people who start dating as a result, according to the Korean Times.

"This project is designed to overcome the demographic crisis amid South Korea's low birth rate by forming a multicultural local community in the future," said district head Lee Gap-jun, according to Asian-American news site NextShark.

The district will hold the blind-date event for "single Korean and foreign men and women" between the ages of 23 and 43 who live or work in the area, the Korean Times reported. If a couple lasts and starts preparing for a wedding, including meeting each other's families, each of them receives an additional $1,490.

Once the couple gets married, the district council will give them another $14,900. Newlyweds can also receive $22,350 for a deposit on a house or rental support for the next five years which can be up to $600, according to New Zealand Herald.

South Korea's birth rate has continuously declined, hitting 0.72 births per woman in 2023, Newsweek previously reported. According to Statista, a country needs at least 2.1 births per woman to keep the population steadily growing.

Seoul Women's University sociology professor Jung Jae-hoon told Reuters that South Koreans now choose to spend more money on themselves rather than start a family.

They are also the leaders in money expenditure on luxury goods in the world with $325 per capita spent on these items. In comparison, in neighboring Japan, it is only $210 per capita and $280 per capita in the U.S., according to a 2023 poll by financial services provider Morgan Stanley.

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The Guardian reported in 2022 that the country has seen a shift in society towards a rising number of adults choosing a single life.

Korean newspaper The Chosun Daily reported that 81 per cent of young adults in South Korea choose to stay with their parents. The outlet attributes this to a statistic that shows it takes a young South Korean around one year on average to start working after finishing education.

Newsweek has contacted the South Korean embassy in the U.S. for a comment.

Saha's measures are not the first initiative taken to increase the birth rate in the country.Many companies started their rewards for employees who choose to start a family. A construction giant Booyoung Group offers their employees $75,000 for each baby they have, Newsweek reported in March 2024.

"If Korea's birth rate remains low, the country will face extinction," Lee Joong-Keun, chairman of the company said.

In July this year, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol announced the creation of a new Birth Rate Ministry to tackle what he called a "national emergency," Newsweek previously reported. The ministry will oversee a scale of demographic issues besides lowering birthrates such as the ageing population, migration, and workforce.

As Newsweek previously reported, other governmental institutions are also working on finding a solution to the decline. The Labor Ministry and Ministry of Gender Equality and Family are looking into South Koreans' work-life balance in hopes it could encourage citizens to start families.

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:snoop: ... When you have social media platforms dedicated to vanity, trying to keep up with appearances, bleaching skin, and focus on self, rather than trying to build a family unit...you end up getting these woes.

No amount of money will ever fix a problem that has been going on with society since the dawn of the internet. Along with the working mentality and just the focus of individuality, you already made a sealed deal with the end results.

A dying bloodline of race.
 

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Asian culture values boys wayyyyyy beyond anything in Africa, Europe, Oceania or the Americas.

They keep telling boys to do whatever they want (no cooking, cleaning etc) while demanding girls be pretty, smart, demure, willing to defer to MiL on everything....plain subservient.

Modern women ain't tryna hear all that unless you're a Tyrone or Chad with baller money. They're not taking a backseat to a generic salaryman. They want to be equals.

White men get so much play with Asian broads because they can be the taller, more hairy, "manly man" but also appear slightly feminist and liberal. Asian dudes that are average looking can't compete. Shyt that gets eye rolls from white women might get an Asian broad to crack a smile. Brehs can get in there too but most Black men ain't checking for Asian women like that unless she falls in our lap.
 

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They're approaching it the wrong way. They should just give JBO posters unlimited visas and some cash to trick on their population. :mjlit:

You're welcome @southkoreangovernment. :ehh:
 

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Asian culture values boys wayyyyyy beyond anything in Africa, Europe, Oceania or the Americas.

They keep telling boys to do whatever they want (no cooking, cleaning etc) while demanding girls be pretty, smart, demure, willing to defer to MiL on everything....plain subservient.

Modern women ain't tryna hear all that unless you're a Tyrone or Chad with baller money. They're not taking a backseat to a generic salaryman. They want to be equals.

White men get so much play with Asian broads because they can be the taller, more hairy, "manly man" but also appear slightly feminist and liberal. Asian dudes that are average looking can't compete. Shyt that gets eye rolls from white women might get an Asian broad to crack a smile. Brehs can get in there too but most Black men ain't checking for Asian women like that unless she falls in our lap.
That is not why they have low birth rates at all, why would you even type that?
 
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