
PRI Insider (Volume 6, Issue 7) February 13
In This Issue: South Korea’s demographic crisis sparked controversy after Jindo county governor Kim Hee-soo suggested “importing” young women from countries such as Vietnam or Sri Lanka to marry rural Korean men to help raise the birth rate. With fertility at just 0.75—far below replacement—and projections showing the population could fall from 52 million to 26.8 million by 2100, lawmakers are scrambling for solutions.








