ABSTRACT
Korea one of the world’s least reproductive societies by the mid 2000s (see Chapter 8). Labor shortage began to be pronounced in many industries, so the South Korean government formally announced a diametric transition of its population policy from birth control to pronatal support. The policy slogan of “from quantity control to quality control” represented an agreement by policymakers and cooperating scholars on a fundamentally changed policy context after a few decades of aggressive family planning.3
