Korea demography reader (March 31, 2010 edition)

• South Korea's childbirth rate has fallen for the twenty-third straight month.

• A new bill aimed at protecting migrant workers in South Korea will ban employers from hiring migrant workers if they have fired others without legitimate reason.

• Despite improvements, the glass ceiling is still proving hard to break in South Korea, especially as 48.5 percent of working women say that discrimination remains a "serious" problem (story also here).

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