eli5: why is South Korea’s birth rate falling harder than other developed countries?

Question

I’ve read some explanations for their falling birth rate. What I don’t understand is, other developed countries also have those problems, their birth rates are low as well, but why are they not as low as SK’s?

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Answer 1

I was raised in KR, and the situation now is the same as thirty years ago. The previous generation were told by the previous generation who were told by the previous generation that you must work hard for the next generation, and the current generation is done with it. People commonly sleep at work because they have no time to go home. It is not so important that you do something productive or useful, just that you are **at** work. All work all day little money no future. Alive but not living.

This is compounded by a very visible class of Koreans which this does not apply to, creating an impossible aspiration or comparison.