The Seoul Metropolitan Government launched the “Youth Meeting, Seoulting” project to organize a meeting for unmarried young people, saying it would solve low birth rates.
The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced that it had decided to discuss again the effectiveness of the ‘Seoulting’ project in solving the issue of low birth rates and to revisit the promotion of the project.
‘Seoulting’ is a business that provides natural opportunities for meeting single young people between the ages of 25 and 39 who work in Seoul by hosting barista classes or hobbies such as mountain climbing.
Seoul City planned to recruit young people of marriageable age to participate in ‘Seoulting’ six times this year.
However, since the main causes of low births were high house prices, difficult child-rearing environments, and women’s career interruptions, criticism persisted that it could not be solved by increasing opportunities to meet.
Some criticize that it is a waste of tax on a business that has no effect.
Regarding this, Mayor Oh Se-hoon said in a plenary session of the Seoul Metropolitan Council on the 13th, “Since the world is so strict, unmarried women (before a blind date) worry about meeting a criminal before thinking about whether they will matches well.” he judged that,” he explained.
In addition, he persuaded that “(the city) pays attention to all the points identified, but the birth rate is low, so they do this.”
However, when the criticism did not subside despite Mayor Oh’s explanation, the city of Seoul eventually took a step back, saying it would fully review the project.
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