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Public matchmaking: South Korea experimenting to boost reproduction

admin Tuesday June 23, 2026

In North America, the idea of publicly funding matchmaking clashes with what citizens expect from the state. CBC’s new report on South Korea’s reproduction policy shows how much collectivist cultures can differ from individualism.

But without saying such experiments are uninteresting, The Diplomat’s take on South Korea’s matchmaking contests is more informative, and critical of whether these events attack South Korea’s reproduction problem from the optimal angle, pointing to inequality instead.