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i'm british manager, welcome to the dublin years, asia, glad you could join us. south korea is mocking a grim milestone this week. new data shows the country's fertility rate has dropped to a record law. south korea already had the lowest number of births by a woman in the world. but last year that fell again. the average number of expect to baby's po, woman of reproductive age dropped from point 81 in 2021 to point 78 in 2022. that is far lower than in other we c d countries which have an average rate of $1.00 and corresponding frank smith asked people in soule why they thought the fertility rate in south korea was low. somebody has to still take care of their children, but because it's so difficult to earn money at the same time and raise kids,

people are just choosing not to go through all that trouble in the 1st place to move her video. took a lot of younger people, just want to enjoy their lives, which is why a lot of married couples don't have children and instead have talk school. i run by raising docs instead they want to lessen their burdens. because i, if you raise a child, you have to spend a lot financially and economically woke up was when you the oh, you're all on tech that he saw to see mom called to called little to solve the reason why a thing to low birth rate problem has not been solve despite there being numerous policies implemented is because they're not thinking much about child care. cook a single that all, all we sold already more they or so no i didn't because as the population continues to age, there will be a need for more support for the increasing older generations. and to resolve these issues, i believe we need to give birth to children order, heck, out on, on

a lighter on him iowa madonica. and joining me now for more context is journalist and author how and john miss john, welcome. why our south korean women having fewer babies? well, there are a lot of reasons behind a lot of reasons behind south korea, birth rate prices. there are, there is a high high housing prices been making a lot of young people to have a place to live and buy the place to live together. or there are no of course i'll try to varying that make a lot of young people to give up with the idea of having a child to begin with. and there is low working hours that a lot of the career long working hours that make a lot of young people to think that, rightfully so, that the, having what life fellows, it's almost impossible to have including having a child and having a career time. but there is also a very one factor behind this crisis is that the agenda inequality is that is very

deeply ingrained in the country, family, culture, family life, that extremely disproportionate part of childcare and domestic responsibility on this women. and also coupled with the ramp and discrimination against women, especially married women and working mothers in a lot of places, makes a lot of young women to shunt the type or, and even men join together. let's talk about a lot of those factors and, but let's talk about them separately. i'd like to pick up the issue of gender inequality and discrimination that you mentioned here. and you are somebody who's reported extensively on south korea's feminist. but you're also the author of an upcoming book about that very subject. flowers of fire is all of these combining together and forming a link between the loading fertility rate and south korea. oh yes. south

korea may be totally, no one has the very best country, economically, technologically, and also in terms of the pop culture as well. but the country also at the same time, has relatively poor records on the new status in society, especially in workplaces. the country has reported the biggest gender pay gas among the always the, the member nations, every single year for the 6 years. and the country has been also ranked at the bottom of the, the so called the glass ceiling in there. that shows how hard that is to be a working woman can country and also what blake differently. yeah, i'm just, i don't understand this is wrong. i mean, we talk about career and as you can make a point to that, it's a modern economy has been for many decades the what you are talking about is essentially a very, very patriarchal and a very conservative mindset. how has that not changed and improved

was there were a lot of reasons behind us spell out the country has basically achieved this economic growth in political democracy, asia, and that crap. and since she was self growth and democratization that has what she's been read some countries within the past few days. and despite the offences made in terms of politics or economy, or in terms of technology, clustering norms, they take more time will know what time to adjust and change. and somehow the playing rains, defective or patriarchal value. as in the countries family, life remains relatively remains changes, change at a relatively slow pace. and you talked about what you talked about the sky high housing prices, for example. and if you have benefits to support people to have families,

you're talking about a patriarchal mindset. i'm wondering all of these external fact of the things that the government can help with. does the government not do this or not health because it will always primarily be male oriented? yeah, i mean the thing is the south korean government has been spending hundreds of millions of dollars for the past decade to boost the birth rate. and in the monthly importance of the stuff to the, for the newly newly, with couples who have chosen on or considering them, you will have more than 4 feet children. but the thing is, a lot of government before 10 subsidies and policies and benefits are based on this very tree. mother of left a traditional heterosexual couples who are officially married. and these were benefits leave out a lot of people who are outside the boundaries of the traditional marriage. for

instance, on married couples, they think of people who live together without getting married. but to want to have a child or think, think 6 couples the support you information. think marriage is to illegally south korea and all the things we mean who wants to have a child without a major partner and a lot of government support these. can you see the government does this offering on that? the government is not opening the same level of support or if at all, to those people who are outside the boundary of the traditional fiction marriage. and there have been a lot of criticism that the problem with the, for the ortho side or support in general have not checked the pace for the tech pace. changing bethaly change the voice of people who are racing. well why there are more the 1st form of her companionship and family. very think very briefly,

or if this, when the change in the near future in the near future, it is really hard to say more of the races if that if gender, you color in your quality and family life and appropriate life is that the core of this birth rate crisis, the government, the front face then, you know, i has wrote to power next year puts the all to me and pay feminist. take them in their platform. and he declared the when he came in, famously declared the gender, the combination no longer existed in the country. and he also promised to dismantle their gender equality ministry. the have that had played up people role in promoting remaining society or tech lead gender policy in the country and, and also the government recently, the chances of plants who recognize

a wide range of companionship and family which was really at the core of the problem in south korea, so i'm not sure if the government is ready to embrace this, the structural and fundamental changes that i needed to the country, but for a long time and the short time as well. right. we left and even the unfortunately, but thank you so much for joining us today. have on john. thank you for having me. ah, hi, renting costs in tokyo have for some to sacrifice. what many consider basic comforts like about the room? turns out you can rent a places in tokyo that don't have about the room and therefore pay less. well, that also means is you have to rely on a communal bathroom. but that's not necessarily a bad thing. space is a luxury in the world's largest metropolitan area. nearly 40000000 people live in and around tokyo, japan,

most of them have their own bathroom at home. though not so tie, same at suda. his home has a table, a bed, a clothes rack, and almost nothing more. it's just 18 square meters. depth. i need to say and that includes a toilet. he calls this single wash tub, his kitchens, and they don't bother looking for a bathroom here. why that won't be any food i got. i don't feel restricted by thus got buds. cook go. everything i need is close by. go mad. sued a pace of base, rent of just $280.00 euros a month. his washing facilities are outside his front door in the co, angie residential district. the proximity to our public bath house from the 19 thirty's was the reason he moved here. japanese santo baths, like this one, have been threatened with extinction. but they're being kept alive by people like

met suda. he loves his bath house, but she also has why fi and a shared office for a members and on the 1st floor, a communal kitchen which might suit a uses almost daily apartment broker, not suca. shima is seeing increased interest from younger clientele. norm with ally. the idea is that you don't have to own things if you can. shad them like game without a refrigerator. because there's a supermarket next door to the sharing mentality is becoming more widespread. living free and unattached doesn't mean being without a community here. tie, say, matt suda doesn't miss having his own bathroom. you are. then i found a new kind of happiness that i didn't know before for me. other things are more important now that the center public bath house as a meeting place. it's an old idea that starting to feel fresh again.

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