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The number of childbirths in Korea dropped tumbled in January... to an EIGHT-year low.
Statistics Korea said Wednesday... that about 41-thousand babies were born in January...,
DOWN more than SIX percent from a year earlier. It marks the 13th straight month of decline.
The agency attributes the downward trend... to more young couples holding-off on marriage...
and more newlyweds waiting to have children..., largely because of soaring housing prices.
Korea's fertility rate was 1-point-2 per woman in the last five years -- the fourth-lowest
in the world, according to United Nations data.