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Until this happens, individuals should Finally, the solution to this crisis is not
in the hands of individuals, so we
keep their dreams and ambitions and
shouldn’t force them to sacrifice their
stop thinking of having children as a
careers and dreams, but in the hands of
national responsibility. Instead, they society and the government, through
should start to deal with it as an action providing alternative and more effective
policies to solve the crisis. This has been
that comes from true desire and feeling
proved already when the birth rate
of safety, as when a person feels that if
increased at the fastest pace in more than
he/she has a baby, this will prevent three decades in April 2024, for the first
him/her from self-actualization, this time in nine years. As a result of that, the
fertility rate increased from 0.72 to 0.75
will make him/her choose
as a response to modern and effective
himself/herself instead of the society.
measures taken by the government.
Despite this increase, the crisis still exists,
and South Korea still has the lowest
fertility rate in the world.
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