Parents are increasingly preparing their 5-year-olds to eventually sit for college entrance exams as competition for good universities grows ever more fierce.

Western nations ignored these problems and sometimes pressured South Korea to keep the kids coming as they focused on satisfying their huge domestic demands for babies. “The commission ...

William Pacheco has painful memories of the school lunches he was served as a kid growing up in Florida in the 1990s.

Parents pay up to $2320 monthly for early education in affluent areas of Seoul.

As the country faces the world’s lowest fertility rate, young adults’ attitudes are shifting about having children out of wedlock.

Western nations ignored these problems and sometimes pressured South Korea to keep the kids coming as they focused on satisfying their huge domestic demands for babies. “The commission ...