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(Bloomberg Markets) –They're called the Sampo Generation: South Koreans in their 20s and 30s who've given up (po) three (sam) of life's conventional rites of passage—dating, marrying, and having children. They've made these choices because of economic constraints and in the process have worsened Korea's demographic imbalances. Last year, when the country registered more deaths than births for the first time in recent history, then-Vice Finance Minister Kim Yong-beom pronounced the milestone a "death cross."

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