South Korea is seeing an unexpected baby boom, with birth rates rising at a record pace during the first five months of the year, the fastest growth since records began in 1981.

The surge follows South Korea’s first annual increase in births in more than a decade, which was fuelled by an increase in ...

South Korea's record-low 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 demographic crisis.

This heady spike corresponded to the life cycle of South Korean baby boomers. This generation, born between 1955 and 1974, numbers 17 million, or one third of South Korea’s entire population.

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Korea's annual economic growth rate could drop by 0.38 percentage points over the next decade as the 9.54 million born in the 'second baby boom' between 1964 and 1974 reach retirement age, a Bank ...

Given South Korea's low fertility rate, the customer base for the baby business is actually shrinking. According to government data, the fertility rate in South Korea came at 0.95 birth per woman ...

Migrant women from poorer parts of Asia have helped fuel a South Korean baby boom but brought concerns about assimilating the offspring of mixed unions. ... South Korea — Just a few years ago, ...