South Korea Expects Its Already-World’s-Lowest Fertility Rate to Keep Falling

GutsBerserk@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.world – 223 points – South Korea’s World-Lowest Fertility Rate Set to Fall Further
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The latest forecast by Statistics Korea puts the population in 2072 at 36.2 million, a 30% decline from the current 51.7 million, even though the fertility rate may recover a bit to 0.68 in 2026. The population is expected to fall every year starting in 2025.

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Akchually you can, if you own enough shares.

You actually can't, Samsung is owned and run by Chaebol. It's essentially the same family at the top, with no sign of their power shifting.

https://www.samsung.com/global/ir/governance-csr/board-of-directors/

Directors shall be elected by resolutions of a general meeting of shareholders. Executive Directors shall be elected from candidates recommended by the Board, and Independent Directors shall be recommended by the Independent Director Recommendation Committee.

Samsung is a publicly traded company. Owning enough shares allows you to have enough voting power to significantly alter the result of the elections with a single vote.

In theory, yes, though the number of shares required to go against the Chaebol is just not feasible. There's a reason South Korea specifically has a word for a specific group of Billionaire Capitalists, they are essentially untouchable.