South Korea society is moving toward a western style demographic population

1. Description:

The rapid process of demographic transition in Korea has brought about the increase of both the absolute number and the proportion of elderly. Korea has already experienced large decline in fertility and mortality.

2. Enablers

- Increasing working woman.

- Technogical advances in medicine.

- Better living conditions in the Developing world - More health awareness.

- change value of family.

- decreasing fertility and mortality.

3. Inhibitors

Korean goverment policy for encouraing birth rate.

4.Paradigms

- Low fertility and population aging has affected the size and proportion of the working age population. So retirement system is important not only for the elderly but also for controlling the problem labor shrotage. So retirement system is important not only for the elderly but also for controlling the problem labor shrotage in order to fill up the labor shortage in the future, Korean government should provide more opportunity female participation in the labor force, and adopt a new immigration policy which accept significant , especially for the supplement of the labor shortage.

- population aging requires adaptation to the problem of long term care of the elderly.

5. Experts

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6. Timing

-life expectancy at birth in 1960 was 51.1 years for males and 57.3 years females. life expectancy for males increased from 57.2 years in 1970 to69.5 years to 77.4 years in 1996.

-the crude birth in 1960 was as high 45 per thousand. the crude firth rate declined to 23.4 in 1960 and then to 15.2 per thousand in 1996.

7. Web resources

www.un.org/esa/population/ publications/popdecline/kim.pdf