South Korea spent $200 billion, but it can't pay people enough to have a baby | CNN

South Korea recently broke its own record for the world’s lowest fertility rate.

The season of baby fairs is here once again in South Korea. Busy, noisy affairs held in cavernous conference halls where hundreds of vendors try to sell expectant parents everything they could possibly desire for their new bundle of joy – and plenty of other things they never knew they needed. But this is a shrinking business, and the customer base is dwindling. Figures released in November showed the average number of children a South Korean woman will have in her lifetime is down to just 0.79.

IVF treatment is not offered to single women, official hospital figures show. “We still have a very puritanical approach to single mothers,” said law professor Cho Hee-kyoung, who writes a newspaper column on social issues.

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