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The Silent Crisis of Shrinking Cities | South Korea News
By 2043, every city and province in the country will face more deaths than births—16 regions already live there, and even Sejong, the last growing area, won’t escape. It’s not just low birthrates (which barely rose to 0.8 last year) but a deadly migration pattern: young people flee to big cities where families can’t thrive, leaving child-friendly areas hollowed out. The paradox? Where kids are hardest to raise draws the youth workforce, while family-friendly zones lose their future. Regional hubs are shrinking faster, with some counties projected to have 50 elderly for every child by 2041—and…
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