Report Says Busan Is Becoming an “Extinct” City
Considering how densely populated Busan is, is depopulation really a bad thing?:
Busan, South Korea’s second-largest city, appears to have entered a phase of extinction due to low birthrates and superaging population, becoming the nation’s first metropolitan city to do so, said a research paper published on Friday.
The paper from the Korea Employment Information Service estimated Busan’s ratio of the population aged 65 or older at 23 percent as of March this year, making it the only metropolitan city to become a superaging society.
The southeastern port city’s extinction risk index calculated by dividing the number of female population aged 20 to 39 by the number of population aged 65 or older was 0.490, it noted. An extinction risk index of over 1.5 is classified as a low extinction risk and an index of 1.0 to 1.5 is considered normal. But regions registering an index of 0.2 to 0.5 are considered to be in danger of extinction, while a figure of less than 0.2 is classified as high extinction risk.
Yonhap
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“Quick! Import millions of unskilled, unmarried, military-aged men from countries with cultures radically different from South Korea.”.
That’s what the WEF wants people to do… So everyone can own nothing and eat bugs like North Korea.
I live in Seoul, but every time I’ve been to Busan, I’ve found it to be a much cooler city—architecturally, topographically, culinarily, etc. It certainly has a more interesting skyline than Seoul does, and the people strike me as nicer. My only problem—and this isn’t just Busan—is the southern accent. I’m better at understanding it than I used to be, but damn, it grates on the ears. Sorry… just my opinion. I lived in the Daegu area for a year, and I never got used to the accent.
To hear that Busan is entering “a phase of extinction” makes me sad. I hope it’s not true.
It depends on how you define the City of Busan and Metropolitan Busan.
The late President Kim Young-sam, born in Geoje, Geongsangnamdo, changed the borders of Busan by putting industrialized Yangsan into Gyeongsangnamdo and placing Gimhae and Gijang into West Busan and East Busan.
The jobs growth, tax growth and potential voters of Yangsan thereby now went to Kim Young-sam’s powerbase of Geongsangnamdo.
In return, the City of Busan acquired the largely rural Gimhae and Gijang with smaller populations and tax bases.
Note the Yangsan subway lines, and the Yangsan water pipelines are seamlessly integrated with the subway and water systems that were constructed by the City of Busan.
Thus you can live in Busan and commute to Yangsan for your job and vice versa very easily.
This is astonishing ignorance by the Korean journalistic fraternity and sorority of the history, geography and economy of Geongsang.
Note also that the independent City of Ulsan, realy part of Gyeongsangnamdo, has per capita income of USD 63,000 whilst the per capita income of Seoul Special City is USD 40,000.
People reside where the jobs are.
Doh!
Then they play in the nightlife and beach districts of Busan City.
It depends on how you define the City of Busan and Metropolitan Busan.
The late President Kim Young-sam, born in Geoje, Gyeongsangnamdo, changed the borders of Busan in 1995 by putting industrialized Yangsan into Gyeongsangnamdo and placing Gimhae and Gijang into West Busan and East Busan.
The jobs growth, tax growth and potential voters of Yangsan thereby now went to Kim Young-sam’s powerbase of Gyeongsangnamdo.
In return, the City of Busan acquired the largely rural Gimhae and Gijang with smaller populations and tax bases.
Note the Yangsan subway lines, and the Yangsan water pipelines are seamlessly integrated with the subway and water systems that were constructed by the City of Busan.
Thus you can live in Busan and commute to Yangsan for your job and vice versa very easily.
This is astonishing ignorance by the Korean journalistic fraternity and sorority of the history, geography and economy of Gyeongsang.
Note also that the independent City of Ulsan, realy part of Gyeongsangnamdo, has per capita income of USD 63,000 whilst the per capita income of Seoul Special City is USD 40,000.
People reside where the jobs are.
Doh!
Then they play in the nightlife and beach districts of Busan City.