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South Korea is facing critical population decline, according to Morgan Stanley. Heavy industries that need a lot of skilled workers might have problem, such as ship construction industry, thus their ability to compete with China is limited.How can they compete when they are having to import workers from central Asia ?
At the end of 2024, Korea became a "super-aged" society, which the United Nations defines as an economy with more than 20% of the population 65 years old or over. Notably, Korea took roughly seven years to reach this status, compared with , the first “super-aged” nation, and 19 years for Europe and its bloc of 27 economies.
If the size of South Korea’s working population continues to decline, the economy could begin contracting by 2040, compared with its current growth of 2%, according to the Korean central bank.