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SOUTH KOREA IS OVER

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell · 15.9M views · 2025-04-02 · 14:47

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A Kurzgesagt animation on South Korea's record-low fertility rate and rapidly aging population. It explains why a demographic collapse looks hard to reverse and projects the population shrinking sharply by 2060.

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Go-to link for the consequences of collapsing birth rates, showing why South Korea's decline looks unfixable.

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Etheryte · 2025-05 · Recommendation

This is not what has happened in South Korea though. They've hit the top of the curve and pretty much every projection agrees that it's drastically downhill from here, the main disagreement is over how quickly. Kurzgesagt has a good video on this [0], they estimate that by 2060 the population of South Korea will have shrunk by 30% and will be heavily skewed towards the elderly. [0] [VIDEO]

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gambiting · 2025-05 · Recommendation

This is a nice explanation from Kurzgesagt showing precisely why South Korea is completely screwed long term, and why it's impossible to course correct through birth rate alone: [VIDEO]

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virtualritz · 2025-04 · Recommendation

Relevant video from Kurzgesagt about South Korean birth rate and the repercussions, 3–4 generations down the line: [VIDEO]

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