Is Seoul To Blame For South Korea's Population Crisis? | Insight | Full Episode

South Korea's is facing a population crisis, with Seoul at the centre of it. The country’s capital remains the beneficiary of both internal and external migration. Instead, it is in the rural and peripheral areas where low birth rates and the aging population have become crises. The countryside is at risk of becoming extinct.

As more opportunities and people get concentrated in Seoul, urban pressures have led to rising unemployment and cost of living. And when things get expensive, people do not have babies. Seoul now has the lowest birthrate in South Korea, in a country with the world’s most dire fertility. On the other hand, farms and factories in the rural areas desperately need workers. How can South Korea solve this population puzzle?

00:00 Why are young people moving to Seoul?
03:50 South Korea's most prestigious universities
05:43 How South Korea's urban-rural imbalance began
07:34 Rural areas at risk of going "extinct"
11:50 Expensive living in densely populated Seoul
15:24 High pressure competition for jobs
18:28 High cost of living, low birth rate?
23:42 Schools in rural areas at risk of shutting
27:06 Why are rural areas emptying out faster in South Korea?
30:35 'Super-aging' South Korean population
34:53 Can migrant workers plug the labour shortage gap?
40:02 Can a new administrative capital convince people to move from Seoul?
41:55 More South Koreans quitting the city life

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