Few children and high aging: South Korea in particular is fighting like no other country. To solve the problems, you have come up with two new ideas: nannies from the Philippines and robots.
What problems do you have in South Korea? South Korea is the only industrial country to have an average number of children per woman, which is below 1.00: it is currently 0.72. The German ZDF mentions a high workload, high costs for apartments and education. This is accompanied by another problem: the strong aging of the population.
For several years now, people have been trying to proceed in South Korea against falling children and increasing aging. Now you have found a new “solution” for the problems: you are relying on foreign nannies and robots.
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What kind of nannies are these? South Korea awards special visas to win Filipino domestic workers as nannies. However, the prerequisites are skills such as childcare, housekeeping and basic language skills. This wants to relieve your own population and encourage children to get children. The English -language magazine Reuters.com reports.
One problem, however, is that the domestic employees should be paid below the South Korean minimum wage in order to meet the wages in their country of origin. A measure that is strongly criticized internationally (via 3djuegos.com).
What kind of robots are these? In the South Korean society there are already so many older people that it is becoming increasingly difficult to take care of them all and have been looked around for other solutions. One idea is now robots: As early as 2023, the city administration of Seoul distributed around 500 robot dogs to the elderly living alone (via Seoul.GO.KR).
The robots are supposed to encourage the elderly to move, should support people as a AI supported companion in everyday life and should independently call the emergency service if help is needed. In addition, it also serves as an autonomous surveillance system, so that experts can follow the development of the elderly without having to visit every household every day.
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