South Korea’s birth rates hit record lows this year, with only seven newborn babies per one thousand people.
South Korean mothers practice massaging their babies during a training program at a public health center in Seoul in this file photo. Kim Jae-Hwan/AFP/Getty Images
SEOUL—With a low salary and high expenses, 34-year-old Sung-Jin Kim once thought he would never get married.
“I had given up on marriage and was going to live life on my own. If things weren’t like that, I wouldn’t have given up on marriage,” said Kim Sung-Jin, a resident of Suwon, just south of Seoul.
