is the 77 percent the platform with, you know, or this channel. we are not afraid to happen. delicate, because population is growing and young people clearly have the solution. the future belongs to the 77 percent every weekend on d w this is the dublin years a shark coming up to date. why south korea has registered the lowest fertility rate in the world. the number of babies expected for women has dropped to point 78. it's part of a trend observed over more than a decade. what's driving it and can be reversed and how fall doing the

luxury of an in house bathroom is helping some talk. a resident, save on their monthly rent. ah, 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. no. south korea already had the lowest number of birds per woman in the world . but last year that fell again. the average number of expect to babies per woman of reproductive age dropped from point $81.00 in 2021 to point $78.00. in 2022, that is far lower than in other we c d countries which have an average rate of 1.59 . and correspondence. frank smith asked people in soul 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. they did. he 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 go by raising dogs instead they want to lessen their burdens. because and i, if you raise a child, you have to spend a lot financially and economically. papa was when you the call your autotech 30 salty mom called to called little to solve. the reason why a thing to low birthrate 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 will ye souls already more than they all?

so no, i did it 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 and i got a lot on either one and my uncle to hold on me. 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. they make it not for 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, the agenda inequality is that is very deeply ingrained in the country, family, culture, family life, the extreme need this proportionate burden of childcare and domestic responsibility on women. and also coupled with the ramp for 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 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, maybe externally. 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 trying to understand this is wrong. i mean,

we talk about soccer and as you can point to that, it's a modern economy has been for many decades the what you were talking about. it 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 that as well thought out the country has basically achieved this economic growth in political democracy, asia, and that crap and century 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 that can cluster knows they take more time, will know what time to adjust and change. and somehow the playing rains, defective or patriarchal value as being the countries family life remains

relatively remains changes. change at a relatively slow pace. and you talked about what you talked about the sky hi 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 help 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 decades to boost the birth rate. and in the monthly importance of the cash stuff to the for the newly newly where the couples who have chosen on or and then you will have more than one feature i'm seeing is a lot of government before 10 subsidies and policies and benefits are based on this

very treat 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 say 66 couples, the support you information, mary gives 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 the government? if not, will bring the same level of support or if at all, to those people who are outside the boundary of the traditional sexual marriage. and there have been a lot of criticism that the problem with the,

for the ortho side or support in general have not kept pace with tech pace with the changing bethaly change the voice of people who are racing. well why there are more diverse form of her companionship and family view thing very briefly. if this, when the change in the near future in the near future, it is really hard to say. one of the reasons is that the gender you could have in your quality and family life and appropriate nice. is that the core of this month for a crisis? the current government, the chrome faced and use on yeah. has rose to power last year. the opening and pay feminist, i think than wider range of companionship as family which was really at the for this problem, the south korea. so i'm not sure if the government is ready to embrace this, the structural and fundamental changes that i'm needing to confess. frustrating in

their long term and the short term as well. right. let me with the unfortunately, but thank you so much for joining us today is have on drug thank you for having me . ah. higher rent and costs in talk. you have for some to sacrifice what many consider basic comforts like a bathroom. turns out you can rent places and talk to the don't have a bathroom 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 or not. so i say, but sued at his home, has a table, a bed, a close rack, and almost nothing more. it's just 18 square meters. do 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. my little one thing, he said i got, i don't feel restricted by thus, gar buds. cool. everything i need is close by. go mad suit pays a 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 a 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. normally, 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 not suda doesn't miss having his own bathroom who 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. and that does it for today. there's more stories from the region on our website. and as of, as you can always follow us on facebook and twitter, we're back again tomorrow. at the same time and you've been

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what's a more friendly way? well, they can at least ask us not to proceed to this certain to this area, but it doesn't mean that we would necessarily agree, but unfortunately that's the situation. now, in certain parts of the south china sea, which are actually part of our exclusive economic zone, where we are, should we have the right to take advantage of whatever resources are there. and not the that se prevented from doing so. there doesn't appear to be any obvious way to stop it.