TOKYO -- With South Korea's fertility rate falling at the world's fastest pace and 280 trillion won ($212 billion) or so in government spending over the past 15 years doing little to arrest the decline, one of the world's most ethnically homogenous nations is now recruiting more workers from overseas.
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South Korea looks to foreign workers to solve demographic crisis
Unable to arrest falling birthrate, Seoul turns overseas to secure labor
Children at a nursery in Seoul. The fertility rate in South Korea is falling at the fastest pace in the world. © Kyodo
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