{"id":6703,"date":"2016-02-04T00:43:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T16:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6703"},"modified":"2016-02-04T00:43:08","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T16:43:08","slug":"south-koreas-gender-problem-could-lead-to-an-existential-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/04\/south-koreas-gender-problem-could-lead-to-an-existential-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea&#039;s gender problem could lead to an existential crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s scary.<br \/>\nAnother thing that could help is\u00a0immigration.\u00a0Lots of people \u2014 mostly women \u2014 from countries like China and the Philippines are moving to South Korea for marriage, to the point that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blogs\/up-front\/posts\/2015\/06\/18-korea-faces-demographic-crisis-moon\" rel=\"nofollow\">the number of mixed ethnic families grew\u00a0700% from 2006 to 2014<\/a>.<br \/>\nB<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blogs\/up-front\/posts\/2015\/06\/18-korea-faces-demographic-crisis-moon\" rel=\"nofollow\">y 2030<\/a>, it&#8217;s estimated that 10% of the population will be made up of foreign-born families, compared with a little over 2% today. This means huge changes in cultural norms for a society where being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/02\/world\/asia\/02race.html?_r=0\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;pure-blood&#8221;<\/a> Korean has long been a praise-worthy trait.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techinsider.io\/why-south-korea-is-becoming-the-oldest-country-2016-1\">South Korea&#8217;s gender problem could lead to an existential crisis<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s scary. Another thing that could help is\u00a0immigration.\u00a0Lots of people \u2014 mostly women \u2014 from countries like China and the Philippines are moving to South Korea for marriage, to the point that the number of mixed ethnic families grew\u00a0700% from 2006 to 2014. By 2030, it&#8217;s estimated that 10% of the population will be made &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/04\/south-koreas-gender-problem-could-lead-to-an-existential-crisis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;South Korea&#039;s gender problem could lead to an existential crisis&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}