S. Korea to create ministry to tackle low birth rates

(UCAnews).

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has said that he wants to create a new ministry to address the country’s low birthrate — the world’s lowest, with the country facing a looming demographic crisis.

“I ask the parliament’s cooperation to revise government organization to set up the Ministry of Low Birth Rate Counter Planning,” he said in a live address to the nation on May 9.

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