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Posts Tagged ‘population’

S. Korean Government to Its Employees: Lights Off, Go Home, Make Babies

bunny“Be a bunny!” That was the essence of the message coming from the South Korean Department of Health this week.

Faced with an incredibly low birth rate–lower even than that of Japan–the government has now stepped in to force its employees to make more babies. They hope to do it with a flick of the switch.

The BBC reports:

At 1900 on Wednesday, officials at the Ministry of Health will turn off all the lights in the building. They want to encourage staff to go home to their families and, well, make bigger ones. They plan to repeat the experiment every month.

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January 20th, 2010 Tags: babies, birth rate, Japan, population, South Korea
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