Korean Pop

No. I don't mean K Pop here but the Korean population. This is a very interesting topic for me since human makes up a country's population. And a country's population can greatly affect its economy.

I'll just make this short. Nowadays, whenever I see a pregnant immigrant woman, I think of this as this is Korea's future. It seems that this is the only most obvious alternative for the country to hopefully raise their rapidly declining population. For sure there are the other way of attracting other migrants to choose to live in Korea with the country's advanced technology and developed nation but I don't think it will be an easier one to take considering the Korean's traditional culture, plus the language. I won't be surprised why marriage immigration gets more attention nowadays. Koreans still prefer to have blood relations over totally becoming global regardless of such.

It brings me back to this funny notion that if you are an immigrant woman who doesn't have kids yet (by choice or not), you are not a productive immigrant. Literally. In my case, even though I already have a school-grader, I still have that strange feeling sometimes. That notion comes up every now and then whenever I attend some immigrant activities.

This leads me to some questions though. Korea might try to raise the population with imported spouses, but are they sure that these will produce quality future citizens. They need to educate most of these imported spouses not only with the language and culture but in raising their children.

I'll stop here. I need to go back to studying to learn the language now.