because women are now highly educated and have dreams and aspiration other than just getting married and having children. This is seen in other developed countries as well. Also, the korean society has not kept up with times (on benefits, cost of living, maternity leave, stigma etc), hence the low birth rate. No one wants to have to juggle children, work and household chores all alone, especially in this pandemic.

May be South Korea should STOP being a bloody Confucianism society, and introduce free education, free healthcare and lower rent council flat housing for the poor and vulnerable. Everything is bloody privatised in South Korea like the US, if people weren't struggling to survive themselves, then maybe they would have kids, also, every thing in South Korea is unnecessarily expensive everywhere, it does not correspond with the level of unemployment and the crap pay South Koreans receive. I live in the UK and people get benefits when they're struggling, my dad worked all his life and earned good money, but when he suddenly got fired from his job, he struggled to find a proper job again for 4 years and had a job, that paid him a measly £100 a week, but the government helped our family income support and benefits, he then got another qualification, so then he got a proper job again, but now because of covid he's unable to work, but the UK is giving workers 80% of their earnings and £500, if you have to self-isolate because of covid. South Korea gave vulnerable families a measly $800, when covid began, but that's it, people have lost their businesses, that they've had for decades and their livelihoods. I mean loads of people are out of jobs in England too, but they're getting some kind of support, South Korea gave nothing to help businesses, our government is paying employees and the businesses also, so they can keep running. And now, South Korea is complaining about the birth rate, and giving shitty incentives, a total of $4000 in total for the child's birth and the first year of the child's life is not going to pay for their education and healthcare at all. And also, South Korea needs to give pensions to the elderly and housing, so that 82 year old women and men are not collecting cardboard everyday for 12 hours straight, just to earn a measley $2 a day. The South Korean government needs to take care of their people first, before they demand their people to create more of them, they're seriously a shitty government.