Thirty Years of Demographic Change in Korea： Implications for G Very Different Future

This paper is by nature a broad brush sweep of several ideas related to Korean demographic changes of the last 30 years. The paper summarizes recent birth and migration trends in Korea, emphasizing the rapidity of change, and that the very rapidly of change (for which Korea has become noted) has created some very special circumstances which, in turn, will have profound impacts on Korean society and economics in the not-so-distant future. (omitted)