wow the former mayor instituted policies that made it easier for poorer newlywed couples to afford to live in Seoul and now we're seeing elementary schools filling up again? Surely this means nothing.
"Population decline" is one of many neoliberal myths sold by people who want to convince you that your neighbors' misery is due to cultural reasons and not due to their slashing of social safety nets. Every time we see concession to the working class even in capitalist countries, we see any number of social ills that was seen as a crisis and too ingrained in society getting better fairly quickly. Never let anyone pretend that redistribution of wealth in the short term and the capture of means of production and distribution of capital in the long term isn't the solution to many many of the social ills we see today.
