You can’t have a country without children.
Forget pandemics. Forget war. South Korea is dying by choice. Not a bomb, not a plague, not even bad luck. A slow, quiet vanishing. It’s not falling to enemies; it’s falling to itself.
Over the next century, South Korea’s population is projected to decline to just 7.5 million. That’s not a typo. That’s an 85 percent collapse: 51 million people, down to seven and a half. Picture America with the population of California, minus everyone else. Now imagine that across the entire continent. Ghost cities. Empty homes. Schools boarded up. Airports with no flights. Subways running on time — for no one. It sounds like dystopian fiction. Sadly, though, it’s a reality that has already begun.
