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Rather than definitively concluding that South Korea's low birth rate policies have completely failed, they should be evaluated differently depending on the criteria used. Although policies implemented so far clearly had a certain protective effect on married couples having children, many viewed them as failures because they were judged solely on the total fertility rate. It is true that the effectiveness of the policies was limited and only worked for a segment of the middle class contemplating childbirth, making their scale and scope woefully insufficient to change the overall trend. More fundamentally, it is pointed out that the majority of the decline in birth rates stems not from people choosing not to have children, but from a shift in the social structure where people either do not marry at all or choose not to have children even after marriage. We must view this as people losing confidence not in the cost of having a child, but in whether they can raise one happily even if they do have one. The issue of childbirth is no longer merely a matter of population policy, but a problem of social structure intertwined with labor, housing, education, healthcare, and inequality.

📌 Key Topics

Distortion of evaluation criteria for low birth rate policies

Limited policy effectiveness centered on the married middle class

Structure of declining birth rates centered on declining marriages

Cumulative effects of job, housing, and education instability

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