Dr. Maxwell Hartt, Associate Professor, comments on South Korea’s recent increase in births after years of declining fertility. In a CBC News article, Hartt discusses the social and economic factors shaping demographic change and cautions that it remains too early to know whether the increase signals a lasting turnaround in one of the world’s lowest-fertility countries.
"Matchmaking and cash: South Korea's plan to avoid population decline" (CBC News, June 17, 2026)