South Korea’s Radical Solution to Asia’s Birth Rate Crisis

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Thanks for posting this video, I found it very interesting.

I think many young Canadians can relate to what's going on in South Korea. I am 28 years old and currently have no plans to get married or have kids. This is many because of economic and social reasons. Life is so expensive here that I worry about caring for myself financially, never mind a wife and kids. I cannot afford a rental suite anywhere within 100KM of where I live. And even if that wasn't an issue the price of gas and groceries is insane, there is no way I could afford to support a small family with an income under 100K+. Also the gender gap is growing, young men and women have vastly different beliefs and priorities. One example is politics, young men especially Gen Z are shifting further right towards conservatism and traditional values, whereas young women are moving further left towards socialist/marxist ideals. Also, modern day society doesn't give young men many benefits when it comes to marriage. With no fault divorce your wife can screw the mailman on the kitchen table and you would still be on the hook for half of all your sh*t if she decides to divorce you afterwards.

No thanks pumpkin, my financial stability is more important than the continuation of the human race and companionship.

If this works, it will be due to great demographic homogeneity in Korean society as well as the culture being consensus based, these people won't be turned off by the idea of a government run matchmaking activity the same way Westerners would be. If it works.

This brings to mind my brief stay on a kibbutz in Israel 50 years ago. As a foreign volunteer (they needed people to bring in crops while young people were deployed after the Yom Kippur War) I shared a room with 2 other volunteers, in a row of rooms that opened to the outside, that shared bath accommodations facing the rooms. Safe and sanitary, but otherwise rock-bottom living conditions. A pair of newlyweds were living right next to us (once we could hear them having sex). They were living at the same level of comfort as foreign volunteers. So it's possible for people to marry and have kids living in a very basic communal situation like that, but young people with good salaries can't see clear to doing that in the 21st Century. Makes you think about the whole purpose of life.