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Demographic Reshaping: South Korean City's Matchmaking Strategy

Writer's picture: Amit MathurAmit Mathur

SEONGNAM, South Korea, - Against the backdrop of Christmas songs, 100 South Korean men and women gathered at a hotel near Seoul dressed in their best with name tags hanging on their clothes, hoping to find love.

The government hopes they make babies.

They were participants at a mass blind-dating event hosted by Seongnam city, an attempt by the local government to reverse a falling birth rate in a country where the popularity of marriage and enthusiasm towards parenthood have nosedived

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