Hanbando Mirae Population Institute to Discuss 'Non-Marital Childbirth'... Seminar on the 20th

The Korea Future Population Research Institute (Hanmiyeon) announced on the 14th that it will hold a seminar on the theme of 'Non-marital Births as Population Policy' at the POSCO Center in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, on the 20th.

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This seminar was organized with the intention of making non-marital births a key pillar of population policy as a solution to the low birthrate problem. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the average non-marital birth rate among OECD member countries was 41.9% as of 2020, but in South Korea, it was very low at 2.9% as of 2021.

Earlier in May, David Coleman, Emeritus Professor of Demography at the University of Oxford, who visited Korea at the invitation of the institute, explained, "The proportion of non-marital births in European countries maintaining a fertility rate above 1.6 is between 30% and 50%," adding, "Without non-marital births, the fertility rates of these countries would have remained at around 1.0 to 1.3." In countries with high fertility rates, the government actively implements support policies so that unmarried couples and single parents can raise children stably.

The keynote presentation at this seminar will be given by Professor Kim Young-cheol of the Department of Economics at Sogang University. The following discussion will be chaired by Director Lee In-sil, with panelists including Professor Song Heon-jae of the Department of Economics at the University of Seoul, Research Fellow Byun Soo-jung of the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, Professor Eun Ki-soo of the Graduate School of International Studies at Seoul National University, and Professor Jeong Jae-hoon of the Department of Social Welfare at Seoul Women’s University. The seminar is open to anyone interested in population issues and non-marital births, and pre-registration is available through the institute’s website until the 18th. Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis, and on-site registration is possible only for remaining seats.

Meanwhile, the Korea Future Population Research Institute is a non-profit private research organization launched last year to seek solutions to South Korea’s population crisis, including ultra-low birthrates and aging, at the corporate and private levels, with Kim Jong-hoon, Chairman of HanmiGlobal, as the founding representative and former Prime Minister Chung Un-chan as chairman of the board. Since March this year, it has been holding monthly seminars and forums to discuss solutions to population issues. Going forward, it plans to discuss various issues such as 'Cases of Corporate Participation in Population Policies by Country and Government Policies,' 'Women’s Economic Activities and Population Changes,' and 'Decline in the Working-Age Population,' and to propose policies.

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