Das südkoreanische Militär ist in sechs Jahren um 20% geschrumpft, da die männliche Bevölkerung sinkt
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-koreas-military-has-shrunk-by-20-six-years-male-population-drops-2025-08-10/
Das südkoreanische Militär ist in sechs Jahren um 20% geschrumpft, da die männliche Bevölkerung sinkt
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-koreas-military-has-shrunk-by-20-six-years-male-population-drops-2025-08-10/
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> South Korea’s military has steadily declined since the early 2000s when it had about 690,000 soldiers. The pace accelerated during the late 2010s and there were about 563,000 active-duty soldiers and officers in 2019.
> …
> In the period between 2019 and 2025, the population of 20-year-old males declined by 30% to 230,000, according to government data, the age when most men who pass a physical exam enlist for military service, which is now 18 months long.
Insane to think about how fast this is happening.
Most highly developed nations are experiencing negative or low population growth I think
South Korea will undergo a massive population decline and aging in the coming two decades. I doubt the result will be pretty.
South Korea is doomed unless they make unprecedented changes. Even if every young woman magically has 2-3 kids each starting from today they are still screwed demographically. The only option is mass immigration from some developing countries to prop up the population but doing that at such a scale and speed has its own issues. I honestly can’t actually see how they escape this time bomb.
What’s the tonnage of their fleet though?
Payload of their explosives?
Makeup of their Airforce etc.
They’re a conscripted country so that doesn’t mean their military has shrunk, just their deployable foot soldiers, which in a conscripted country isn’t the real army anyway.
It is a comment on their population demographics, but that wasn’t linked in the headline.
Robots for support roles, even if they are not on the front line?
Well the work work culture has finally caught up with South Korea. People don’t have time for kids nor the time to make them. There needs to be a major mind shift amongst all Koreans, they have been sucked into this system of long hours and worship the boss attitude, go for dinner/drinks after work and basically have no free time. If they continue North Korea will end up waltzing in there.
at this rate, the next war might be fought over who gets the last recruit
The south korean military has white papers from over a decade ago planning this deliberately. There’s a reason they reduced service times instead of increasing it to make up for reduction in population size.
The goal was to reduce costs in maintaining a standing army. They planned reduction of tge size of the army to give them parity in size to the airforce and the navy.
The reductions in cost would be put into more advanced equipment and investments towards more elite forces.
Curious. Are there a lot of high income families in Korea that just send their kids overseas to study and work, without any intention of ever going back to serve the army?
Think this is happening quite often for Taiwan’s families. Those with the means to send their kids overseas, just do that and let them work and live overseas, without any plans to ever return.
more orgies !