I have been binge watching English-speaking Japanese men talking about how their country is dying, and now I made it to the South Korean side! I don't know why, but I am so invested and interested in such topics!

It’s just how the world is going, soon many countries will join you. Housing/job crisis is everywhere. From a Brazilian

You and your girlfriend better get busy.

Thank you for sharing! I recently read that South Korea's fertility rate dropped 8% in 2023 alone. It seems like significant changes to work/life balance are needed so people can have more time to raise families. Looking forward to more of your videos.

Don’t listen to these silly comments about inappropriate dress codes. It’s obviously hot over there ( I’m in Australia) I’m not offended in the least. Some people! How dare they tell you how to dress in your own video. In fact, I’m becoming infuriated by the minute over their dictatorial, officious and high and mighty attitude. Total nonsense. I like your videos.

Hello, Average Korean Man!! I just recently discovered your channel & am really enjoying it. May I compliment you on your English--you speak very well & are easy to understand. As a red-blooded American woman, I did not mind at all that you were shirtless. I rather enjoyed it! You are a cutie!!

Hello average Korea man , I am average Afghanistan guy living in north Afghanistan , I learning English from the american before they leave , maybe I can also make a channel talking on my situation

2 Korean babies here in the USA. Trying to help out.

Thanks for your explanation, very kindly explained and presented.😊

I think one problem can also be that people wanna travel, focus on them self, find them self, dont want to destroy thier body giving birth, also hard to meet the right person, and people maybe have mentally issues and other issues.

I like this dude. Learning about other cultures is amazing. Also ge does not look like he's in his 30s. Way younger!

That’s crazy. Is that’s why we see so many more match making shows in Korea now? I see more and more Korean realty match making shows on Netflix. This is very interesting.

in Poland is around 1.33 and people are adressing this issue a lot so 0.72 sounds crazy

😅 didn’t know the birth rate in South Korea is worst than Japan 🇯🇵

Makes you wonder if this will cause some sort of economic reset in the future... otherwise, how else will birth rates improve?

Wow. That is sad.😢

I really liked this video! Well explained!

Hello viewers, if you have an issue with him or how he does his videos just don't watch it.

I agree about this issue in Korea. The teachers now are starting to get laid off because there is no children to educate at the lower grades which will increase as the children start going up through the schools. Korea will have to bring people in to work from other countries or companies will need to outsource overseas which Kia and Hyundai is starting to do now. The men will need to leave Korea to find women because men are normally prioritized if they are the first child. Look at China 300 million more men than women. China finally figured out that men were dating other men because there were no women or escape China to find a women so they allow 3 children now. This is so serious and the government of Korea needs to gut everything. You need 2.1 children as a country to offset because things happen and you might lose a child which is just reality. Also Kdrama and KPOP is not helping all this mess. It might seem like it's helping but watching the Krama's I can see why no one has kids. Prioritizing education/work over family creates a more robotic society than a family oriented society.

Thanks again . I wish you success with your videos.🎉

I have heard other people from south Korea talking about the problem with this . Thank you for taking the time to break it down for us. This is heart breaking .

First thing first, are you married?

just had my first daughter, it's GREAT to have kids and besides a few tired nights, it's been 99% pure joy and the best thing that has ever happened to me. But I also married a traditional Asian woman. All my American friends from college (now around 35-40 years old) all go on about how they HATE kids, don't want to lose their beauty and how Trump is going to stop abortion so why even bother trying to have kids if they don't get to control exactly when it happens. it's NUT and they will regret it when they are older I am very sure of it.

Thanks for your interesting content

more boys than girls are born , normally 100 girls vs 105 - 108 boys depending on country , therefore without wars many countries modern countries have a shortage of young women ,

Thank you for telling us about this situation.

South Korea worked economic miracles and transformed one of the poorest countries into one of the richest. Now it needs to work a social miracle. How can you encourage young people to have children? This needs to become an urgent priority. But it is an economic issue as well. Having children needs to be affordable and workplaces and society in general need to redesign completely away from the attitudes and systems that were in place in the fifties and create absolutely family friendly, even family first, environments.

Great video! Keep up the great informative videos. Love it. ❤

Wherever lower birth rates exist, the move from agrarian to industrialized society is a key factor. Farm families typically had children because they were cheap labor and played an essential role in the family's economic success. As people gravitated toward cities, child labor was no longer needed. In fact, too many children were a financial burden. Parents therefore made an economically sound decision to have fewer children. In hindsight, the desire to rapidly push toward industrialization was too intense. The few that got rich paid more attention to their revenue stream but looked the other way when economic viability was threatened.

Blame global feminism and how HYPER materialistic women are over there on top of the stress men deal with.

C'était très clair avec le tableau blanc. C'est choquant quand on fait les calculs (^.^; Merci et bon courage!

Poland is facing a similiar problem the birthrate is at 1.33 here atm of writing this.

Those numbers without man going to the wars…

Great and informative video. I think it's important to look at the causes, which we all mainly know is cultural, societal and of course the economics. The massive technological advancements (of course the fear of AI replacing many jobs) also plays a huge part as by consequence creates a more introverted and anti-social society (people who are more likely to lock themselves in a room enjoying the fast internet while only go out to buy groceries or when needed, as well as being addicted to corn which limits their chances of meeting someone and increasing the birth rate). There's also the education sector, as we all know, Korea's education system is very very highly competitive (like most of East Asia) which results in high 'S' rates due to the rigorous and depressing setting (bullying, cyberbullying and high expectations from parents that burden the students) of most schools. You can search the statistics of all these factors yourself for a more thorough and in-depth research. It's very interesting to see how completely different factors affect birth rates. South Korea is a mixture between a Confucian society and a Western society. It's easy to identify the many problems, but what are the solutions? 🤔 There are probably countless solutions but it all depends on if the government is willing to take the initiative (remember that governments never really do anything until it gets really really bad) as time is of the essence. I read somewhere that the Korean government is giving out passports to foreigners with stable incomes in hopes that they would live and marry a Korean man/woman, I want to hear your thoughts on this from a Korean perspective, do you think the government is doing the right thing? Do you think that Korea will lose it's homogeneity? Do you think it's ok as long as the foreigners are educated and come to Korea legally?

Hi, I am Italian, we have a similar problem but not that serious. Thanks for making videos😊

Im my province, Québec in Canada, the birth rate has been as high as 38 or 39 per 1,000 women at the beginning of the 20th century is now 8,8 bitrths per 1,000 women. I quess it must be the same in all industrialized and rich countries. In Africa, the birth rate in 2023 was 31.599 births per 1000 people.

Other countries use immigration to boost their numbers. Also, at a point, North Korea may unite with South Korea.

Sad fact and scary 😥

okay, so 1) what is the death rate and is menopause coming later? I know menopaus in the US, the timing is getting later in life. So women in mid 50s can have children. 2) can you have a mass migration of youth out of cities, like a movement, to agriculture and farming sector, and repopulate SouthWest Korea? Orchards, fishing etc.

Hello! I think what you’re describing here is the total fertility rate, and not the birth rate (which is usually measured per 1,000 population). I believe that both rates are declining throughout the world, though the causes may be varied.

Goodbye my sweet Korea 😢

Have you considered playing Street Fighter II?

100 W + Genghis Khan

I was visiting SK during the second week of June and the weather was very nice but a bit hot. Our tour guide told us about the birth rate. I thought it was interesting

8:28 I don't know if I should say this, but DPRK and ROK are technically still at war even until today. But DPRK don't even need to fire a single bullet, just play a waiting game, and by the time of Kim Jong-Un's Grandson's time, DPRK would have won the war when the scenario of ROK being the "first country to disappear"

Birth rate measures the number of births per 1,000 inhabitants in a certain period, typically per year. The fertility rate, on the other hand, refers to the average number of children that a woman of childbearing age (usually 15-49 years) has in the course of her life. South Korea is 5. in lowest birth rates, and 1. in lowest fertility rates. Best wishes from Austria, those rates/numbers are not much better here.

It’s just my opinion korean men should try to marry foreigner

Hello, I heared about S.K birthrate news long back buf it is true. I am watching many korean content creater in youtube and insta. Many men and women in korea ar nearly reaching around 40 but no marriages happened to them if married but no kids yet. Thanks for sharing with us genuinely🤝💐

the way is to increase immigration and marriage with foreigners

What is the government doing about this?

But remember that current birthrates in europe are being overshadowed by the not natives

sorry to hear that as this can become a crysis in the future in my country Pakistan its the opposite its overpopulated which is also not a good thing Pakistan is rank at 5 th place in top 10 most populous countries.

Why are you shirtless?

Talking about birth rate half naked is awesome ! I'm dying 😂😂😂😂. I bet all the uptight morons are in heaven screaming and yelling about that... secretly disappointed not seeing more 😂😂😂. It was extremely interesting by the way !

Can someone explain why this is an issue outside of there being less population? Wouldn’t less population mean less costs to run the country and perhaps more space for the population

If this goes on, NK will be able to waltz in without any resistence...

I was gonna be like bra wheres your clothes, then I realized you're literally presenting a chart on how your society is dying, so why would you care. Well done videos despite the lack of dress code.

it's a very interesting topic. It relates to all the world as well as fertility rates are dropping fast and Elon Musk even said many years ago that the world's biggest problem is population decline. People do not realize it but while the population of the planet continue to grow to 11-12 billion by 2100, it's only because people are living longer so that is why the numbers are going up for now...but once the lag catches up, the population will decrease so rapidly it'll come like a thief in the night and the world won't realize it until it's already too late. But there is a different theory. By 2100, the world will have changed so much that we won't need many people anyways. Nations will turn into corporations and automation, ai, robotics, neural link/brain net, cloning, genetic factories will change everything and the world will function on just 1 or 2 billion or even less without a problem. But we are not there yet. It's going to be really bad for long time before it gets good. Halving the world's population is going to create chaos anarchy and disorder as systems fall and societies lose their footing but only for a while until we adapt the new world order which will not need many humans.

Was it your birthday? 🎂 I noticed that you said you were 33 years old. If that's the case, I congratulate you and wish you all the best.

I would fit in there, I have 1 daughter lol!

Please make a hangout with the Japanese man

It’s always interesting to see how the refusal of political leaders to actually SEE a problem in order to fix it causes the problem to get worse. We have the same lack of problem solving in the US. Women here feel less and less safe or comfortable to have children here either. But because we continue to immigrate people, our population can still grow. Korea does not have an easy path to residency or naturalization for non Koreans. So if Koreans aren’t making babies, there will just be no babies. There are options that can be taken to make the environment better for women, for families, and for workers, but it would take a shift in mindset and culture that I’m not sure the population would really go for. This is also the same in the US. They could also make the environment better for women, for families, and for workers. But if it doesn’t make life better for Congress, they won’t make it happen. 😔

The style of this video seems very familiar...

the problem for the industrialized world seems to be how to get more buck for your bang...

Are you going to get a VR set soon?

Most western countries supplement their birth rate with very high immigration levels. Much of this is driven by taxation reasons ie we import adult workers who can immediately contribute to the tax system. This enables social welfare to continue.

In the birth rates, you cannot assume that girls and boys will be of equal number. There could be more girls than boys or the other way around. The stats assume that the births will be even, but that is not the case. So, it could even be less.

Wonder what the birth rate of North Korea is

I think the change would radicate in the fact that more moral and ethic values where shared in Korea in educational institutions, this would change the birth rate by far. And why is that? Well in kore most youngsters arround the age of 20 and 25 go and hang arround clubbing and have no manners with girls and the same goes for the girls, in fact if you count the body count of Korean women you would be shocked, they only have sex for pleasure and not for love/romance and function (wich is to make children). If ethic values where taught to them from an early age they would consider marriage even more in their late age and even would desire it. Something's gotta change!!! Much support from an Amazigh of North Africa my Korean brother!

I trust my maths with the East Asians. They don’t need calculators 😀

That was funny and cute when you lost your train of thought. ㅋㅋ Also though your numbers are very abstract just to show how quickly population can decrease, you also have to factor in children who die before reaching reproductive age and people who physically cannot reproduce, which makes the numbers even more dire.

hello average korean man! can you tell me what's the real average salary in south korea?

why is he not wearing a shirt?

5:49 아니요 Your population doesn't go down like that, women that give birth just don't suddenly die. 이상한 예문 이에요 7:00 Earlier you said that in 60 years your population will go down to 12.5% (200 -> 24) but here, numbers you have on paper says in 50 years you will have gone down to 44%. Why these numbers differ? Right, there is a 10 year difference but the difference is very large here and that 10 years can't account for the differences you show. 8:50 Expert says your population will go down to 40% in 75 years. 그차이들이랑 모르겠어요 I suggest most people don't really know what will happen. Japan went through the same thing, same fear on top of an economic crisis, result: Japan is still alive and kicking.

I feel like this is a problem that can be solved overnight. Allow immigrants. Give tax breaks to new parents. Companies give good maternal leave to mothers.

You should have looked at 2024 fertility rate of South Korea, its 0.68

immigration might save the birth rate. the reason why the USA is almost 2 is because of immigration. also, the work life pressure is horrible with long hours.

Interesting topic, but why is your style of talking and using the whiteboard the same as the videos of the "50 year old average Japanese man"?

What is the reason behind the low birthrate in korea?

Don’t worry, mate. There will be lots of AI robots doing jobs, so after some time there will be universal income. This will create opportunities to have more kids. Also, in the US and Western nations, they are taking in lots of refugees and immigrants. They are even letting in illegal immigrants. You guys could do something similar as well. Japan has breeding visas; you guys could do something similar. You have to fear Kim Jong-un more than your population.

Most channels say the birth rate is low because of frigidity among men and women, then because of violence against women, but the Korean man lives in a patriarchal society.

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woah, almost sounds like women are important and valuable

Is this man Korean or from Philippines? His English doesn't sound like Korean English.

Try to compare it with India😂

hi bro,i want hear some sth about feminism truth,but i don know korean language,getting the whole info is limited,hope y can make a series of video about that!

Belgium has a birth rate of 1,60. So that is ok. What I see the last years is that there are more babies than before. I saw a big difference after COVID actually.

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Maybe you should make the video in Korean so Koreans can understand since they're the ones who need to listen the most not Americans. 😂

A surface area of Earth (without Antarctica) is 135 000 000 sq km. On Earth live 8 mld of people. Average density of population on Earth is 59 people/sq km. South Korea has density more than 500 people/sq km. It's almost ten times overpopulated. How do you know that current count of people of S.Korea is optimal (be worried its decline)?

There are sperm banks haha

It won’t disappear… you most likely will have to allow immigrates from other countries

OMG, did you forget to put on a shirt?

Whatever, the consequences will happen after us. It also will happen gradually, just a graduall population decline, nothing bad. It is definetly not on the brink of disappearance with the population of 50 million people it will require thousand years to dissappear. Yes, population would be poorer, definetely, but it will happen gradually and just instead of Korea need to invest in more promising countries. In Korea the poorer pop will become the more babies it will have. So all is balanced.

I’m wondering if a taboo, shyness, uncomfortableness about s*x is a factor in S Korea’s low birth rate. I only say this because there are many poorer countries that don’t have a low birth rate, or at least not as severe of one. Rationally it seems like there HAS to be more factors than just the cost of raising children that’s contributing to this. People in every country have to make financial sacrifices to have children, so why are people in S Korea seemingly not willing to make those same sacrifices? Is the competitive nature of people in S Korea so important culturally that people are willing to risk never having children in order to “win” the competition? This is a very interesting, but also tragic topic.

The answer is immigration and becoming totally English friendly.

I find it hard to take you seriously because you are not dressed. This seems really odd to me. Even if it is hot you should understand your audience

Too many women in the workforce and materialism. Fix those 2 problems and the birthrate will go up.

Hi first of all it s weird you do your video topless ..second to increase birth rate it s obvious : reduce stress by reducing time of work , more holliday , let come some politec foreigner happy to learn your culture , change the mind set and next generation birth rate raise .

Please wear a shirt in your videos. Being shirtless is inappropriate.