Nearly 40% of Single Working Women Want No Kids

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The Chosun Ilbo (English Edition): Daily News from Korea - Nearly 40% of Single Working Women Want No Kids
Some 38 percent of single working women have no plans to have children, according to a survey by the Federation of Korean Industries.

The poll was conducted among 500 working women and shows that those who were married had on average 1.8 children, but the unmarried ones planned for no more than 1.1.

In spite of a government effort to boost childbirth, most women still consider it too difficult to balance work and raising children.
 
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It's the Panda Sickness. The urban/zoo existence is so alienating and stressful, and the prospects for coming generations are so bleak, that the females don't want to bring another baby/bear cub into this world. It's a natural reaction to our time.
 
"Around 44 percent said the government's measures such as maternity leave and flexi-time for working moms are not guaranteed in their workplaces.

The biggest group said their bosses simply refuse to accommodate them, while others feared repercussions if they took advantage of their legally guaranteed rights. Still others said their company opposes the measures, though some said they are too busy."

I think this is the clue, right here, and it's pretty similar here in the US.
 
and in Korea's neighbor Japan - death by overwork - "karoshi"
Do Japanese really work themselves to death? In some cases, yes
This relentless schedule has led to karoshi – either from a fatal heart attack or stroke, or a suicide triggered by overwork – becoming a recognised cause of death. Labour ministry figures show that 189 deaths were classified this way last year, although experts think the actual number is in the thousands.

Karoshi has long been considered a male problem, but advocates say they're seeing an increasing number of women dying, almost always by killing themselves.

The striking thing about them is that they're very young, often in their 20s, said Hiroshi Kawahito, a lawyer and secretary-general of the National Defense Counsel for Victims of Karoshi, which fights for victims' families.

Kawahito represented the family of a journalist in her early 30s who died of a heart attack. When a reporter gasped, he added: "It's actually not rare in Japan for people in their early 30s to have heart attacks."
Once a death is classified as karoshi, a victim's family is automatically entitled to compensation through a kind of workers' benefits system. The number of claims for karoshi-related cases rose to a record high of 2,310 in the year ending in March, government figures show.
 
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