Rewriting the Strategies for Survival in an Age of Division and Extinction

Date : 2024. 11. 12 / Location : Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP), Seoul SDF 2024 Official Website
[SDF2024] Special Fireside Chat - The Population Issues in Korea: What Are the Solutions?

2024.11.12

David COLEMAN, Hiroya MASUDA, CHO Youngtae

Korea’s population problem threatens to reach new extremes as overconcentration in Seoul continues and provincial areas grapple with the existential threat of depopulation. What kinds of solutions are possible? Cho Youngtae, Director of the Seoul National University Population Policy Research Center, moderates this session with David Coleman, the world’s foremost demographer, and Hiroya Masuda, Japan’s most prominent population expert, discussing how Korea might go about solving its population problem.