Courses on dating, sex, love and relationships are trying to increase coupling and eventually birthrate.

Most young korean woman and men don't want to have kids. They reason it would be too difficult to balance family with work pressures. They would consider trying to have children "if the economic conditions were right."

The Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs estimates that by 2100, nearly half of South Korea's population (48.2%) will be 65 or older.