Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung have agreed to launch a joint task force to ...

South Korea recorded its fastest rise in newborns on record in June, government data showed Wednesday, offering a rare boost for a nation long challenged by one of the world’s lowest birth rates. A ...

The number of babies born in Korea this year could increase by as many as 20,000 compared to last year, driven by a rise in expected deliveries, according to a government report released Tuesday.

SEOUL — South Korea is so worried that women are not having enough babies that a slight increase in the birth rate last year ranks as a major triumph for the nation. South Korea’s birth rate rising ...

South Korea recorded its largest-ever gain in birth rate over the first five months of the year, its statistics agency said Wednesday, amid a looming demographic crisis.

South Korea’s fertility rate rose in 2024 for the first time in nine years, supported by an increase in marriages, preliminary data showed on Wednesday, in a sign that the country’s ...

Seoul has poured billions of dollars into efforts to encourage women to have more children and maintain population stability. "The number of newborns for the January–May period stood at 106,048, a 6.9 ...

South Korea now has more than 10 million single-person households, a first for the country’s history and a demographic shift ...

Investments in cutting-edge technology can only do so much to fill the void left by South Korea’s disappearing generation of soldiers.

A pregnant woman in Gyeonggi Province gave birth in an ambulance after being rejected by 40 hospitals, marking the second such case in days and highlighting South Korea's ongoing healthcare crisis.

Marianne Ok Nielsen never wanted children, or a family of her own. She used to tell friends she didn’t feel worthy of that ...

South Korea’s birth rate has dropped throughout much of the past decade, spelling trouble for the military as regional ...