A research institute of the Bank of Korea (BOK) said Sunday that Korea may be forced to record negative economic growth in the 2040s unless the nation improves its productivity, as its working-age population is rapidly shrinking.
In a report, the BOK’s Economic Research Institute expected Korea’s economy to grow some 2.1 percent in the 2020s and some 0.6 percent in the 2030s but to shrink some 0.1 percent in the 2040s.
The assessment by Cho Tae-hyung, vice head of the institute, was based on an assumption that Korea may fail to improve its productivity to make up for a decline in the working-age population.
If Korea improves its productivity to cope with a demographic change, the report predicted that the nation’s economy would grow some 2.4 percent in the 2020s, some 0.9 percent in the 2030s and some 0.2 percent in the 2040s.
“It is most important to keep productivity growth to mitigate future slowdowns in economic growth,” Cho said in the report.
The BOK has recently projected Korea’s economy to grow 1.4 percent for all of 2023, down from a 2.6 percent expansion in 2022. (Yonhap)
They’ve really done it to themselves. Worked up into a religious fervor wishing the days of the 70s dictators would come back, where the disabled, dissenting students, and activists were rounded up and killed wholesale.
And before the chuds roll in, yes I have personally seen this. It’s almost universal with the older demographic.
These are people that worship the dictators of old to this day, keeping massive portraits of them in their homes.
Working the younger generations to death and keeping all the profits their labor generated. They have miraculously speedrun capitalism in two generations. Went from subsistence farmers to gleaming cities to complete societal collapse in 50 years. Fascinating.
They haven’t collapsed yet. This is a warning, not a prophecy.