Seoul to Offer 1 Million Won Marriage Grant to Newlyweds Amid Population Concerns

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1. 1 million sounds like it’s a lot but it’s just ~700 USD

   It won’t go very far in Seoul, barely enough to cover one month of rent. I don’t think it’s going to tip the scale towards marriage for most couples

2. The very first step a state does to implement modernity was to destroy the culture that enable the creation of traditional families. I’ve never read in history of a state regaining it’s families unless that state is destroyed and rebuilt using another culture. Like the transition of old Roman Empire, to Christian Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire).

   Every state in the world that has enacted modernity, from the USSR, to PRC to East Asia, to the entire western world is facing population decline, and I don’t think they will recover.

3. Should we perhaps deal with the gender issues the country has? Should we perhaps try to make wages better and work conditions more flexible? Should we maybe try to listen to what women have to say as to why they don’t want to have children?

   Nah, let’s try to throw pennies at them to see if that fixes the problem.

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