SEONGNAM, South Korea: Against the backdrop of Christmas songs, 100 South Korean men and women gathered at a hotel near Seoul dressed in their best with name tags hanging on their clothes, hoping to find love. The government hopes they make babies. They were participants at a mass blind-dating ev
  • deegeese@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is like a company addressing poor employee retention by throwing a pizza party instead of addressing real issues.

    Women’s rights, the cost of childcare and housing are too hard to fix, so let’s set them up on dates!

  • chepox@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I see all of these actions by the government to address and reverse the population decline but they seem so insignificant and half assed.

    This is a very serious issue for a society and it has the potential to get worse in a geometric decline fashion, making it very time sensitive.

    Actions that may help today will be useless on the near future… I think governments are not giving this issue the seriousness it deserves and are acting way too slow. By the time they realize this it may too late. They may be obligated to do some very uncomfortable containment actions.