South Korea Tries to Stop Explosive Population Growth in Seoul Metropolitan Area
Seoul is such an incredible city that I can’t blame Koreans for wanting to live there. However, there are plenty of other great cities in Korea as well that hopefully Koreans start moving back to. Having so many people concentrated near the DMZ just further feeds into the strategic advantage North Korea has:
With an influx of people from all over the country, the number of residents in the Seoul metropolitan region ― including Seoul, Incheon and Gyeonggi Province ― surpassed 50 percent of the nation’s total population for the first time ever last year, even though the region occupies only 11.8 percent of the country’s total land. The extremely high concentration of the population in Korea’s capital area contrasts with those of the U.K. at 12.5 percent, France at 18.8 percent and Japan at 28 percent.
Korea Times
Other parts of the country, meanwhile, are collapsing. The government recently designated 89 out of the 228 cities, counties and districts around the country as areas facing the risk of “extinction.”
The collapse of local towns is also negatively affecting the quality of life in Seoul.
“The contraction of local towns accelerates the population concentration in the capital area, resulting in soaring housing prices and a lack of jobs. It will in turn pull down the birthrate in the capital area, accelerating the population decrease of the country as a whole,” said Kim Hyeon-ho, a researcher at the Korea Research Institute for Local Administration.
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How much of this is a “totally unexpected” consequence of shutdowns and vaccine mandates due to WuFlu?
All of it.
When the government destroyed 30-50 percent of small businesses, did they expect people to sit out in Podunk-ri and quietly starve to death while continuing to do their work without pay?
Leftists are all part of a clueless death cult. They seem shocked when their actions produce exactly the same disastrous economic and personal results every time.
Shame on voters for falling for this crap.
It is a good idea to concentrate the population densely in one area.
It makes them much easier for a government to control, a globalist to manipulate, a corporatist to employ, a multinational to exploit, an environmentalist to depopulate, and a communist to starve.
Even conflicting groups can agree its better to get everyone together in the cities.
Do you really want them off in the countryside farming and bringing food security to Korea?
“It is a good idea to concentrate the population densely in one area.”
Add:
Makes Seoul the perfect nuclear target.