By TAKESHI KAMIYA/ Correspondent
February 24, 2022 at 19:03 JST
A waiting room in a Seoul hospital, previously dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, appears deserted on a weekday afternoon in March 2021. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
SEOUL--South Korea’s dwindling fertility rate dropped to a new low in 2021, as many worry the country’s economic slowdown and overheated housing market have made it too expensive to have kids. [Read More]
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