The mother of the infant is said to be a Filipino woman in her 30s. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

From January to March, 65,022 babies were born in South Korea, up from 60,571 a year earlier. Read more at straitstimes.com.

South Korea has for decades been known as the world’s largest “baby exporter” – sending hundreds of thousands of children overseas after the country was ravaged by war and many mothers ...

performing an abortion in South Korea was a crime punishable by up to two years in prison, with limited exceptions for rape, incest, and threat to the health of the mother or the baby. Pregnant ...

South Korea has sent nearly 200,000 children abroad for adoption since 1953, making it the largest source of inter-country adoptees in the world. In the Asian country’s impoverished postwar ...

South Korea is the source of the world’s largest ... It cited the case of a baby girl it identified only by her last name, Chang, who was born in Seoul in 1974. Her adoption agency in Seoul ...

You can get in touch with Micah by emailing m.mccartney@newsweek.com. South Korea aims to significantly increase the number of fathers taking parental leave, the presidential committee on ...

The sale of pet carriers in South Korea has surpassed that of baby strollers for the first time, underlining the country’s worryingly low fertility rate. The East Asian country’s fertility ...