After explosive growth in recent months, the country’s benchmark stock index plummeted, then rebounded, in the wake of the U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran.

South Korea has recorded its biggest annual birth rate bump in 15 years, official figures showed Wednesday, but still far below the threshold needed to stop its population shrinking.That is well ...

South Korea has recorded its biggest annual birth rate bump in 15 years, official figures showed Wednesday, but still far ...

The latest official demographic data show opposite trends in the two East Asian countries. Despite government measures and ...

A total of 254,500 babies were born last year, up 6.8 per cent, or 16,100, from 2024, according to the provisional data from the Ministry of Data and Statistics. The ministry will announce the final ...

South Korea’s fertility rate has climbed for a second consecutive year, bucking a long-term trend of population decline that has plunged the country into one of the world’s worst demographic crises.

South Korea has seen births rise for two consecutive years, but will the trend hold?

By Jihoon Lee SEOUL, Feb 25 (Reuters) - South Korea's birthrate rose for a second straight year in 2025, government data ...

South Korea's fertility rate rose for the second straight year in 2025 to 0.80. Still, it remains among the lowest in the world.

Demographer Stuart Gietel-Basten tells The Conversation Weekly podcast why South Korea’s birth rate is climbing, and what that means for the future.

Chuluunbaatar Odgerel, 43, let out a sigh of relief in an exam room in Ewha Womans University Seoul Hospital in Seoul when ...

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