After years of headlines about Korea’s demographic collapse, the country’s birth numbers have started moving in an unfamiliar direction: up. Following a 2025 total fertility rate of 0.80, itself a …
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Society & Social Trends
Single-Person Households Now Make Up Nearly 37 Percent of All Korean Homes
by Grace Limby Grace LimThe traditional Korean household of multiple generations under one roof keeps becoming less and less representative of how the country actually lives. As of 2026, single-person households in Korea have …
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Society & Social Trends
Korea’s Births Just Posted Their Biggest Jump Since Records Began in 1981
by Mina Choby Mina ChoFor a country that has spent years as the global poster child for demographic decline, the numbers coming out of Korea this spring are turning heads. According to “March Population …
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Daily Life & Society
South Korea’s Birth Rate Just Ticked Up for the First Time in Years. Demographers Say Don’t Get Used to It.
by Daniel Yoonby Daniel YoonSouth Korea’s fertility rate rose to 0.99 in January 2026, nudging up against the symbolic threshold of 1.0 for the first time in years. Statistics Korea recorded 26,916 births that …
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Society & Social Trends
Korea’s Birth Rate Rose for a Second Straight Year. The Statisticians Who Tracked It Won’t Call It a Turnaround Yet.
by Hana Suhby Hana SuhFor eight straight years, every annual fertility report out of South Korea told some version of the same story: lower than the year before. That streak broke in 2024, and …
