South Korea’s Plan to Rank Towns by Fertility Rate Backfires

From the New York Times:  SEOUL, South Korea — For years, officials in South Korea, which has one of the world’s lowest birthrates, have tried ever more inventive plans to encourage women to have babies.

On Thursday,  [the government] rolled out an online “birth map” that used shades of pink to rank towns and cities by the number of women of childbearing age. But the reaction was so overwhelmingly negative, especially among women, that the website was shut down within hours of its introduction.

A woman who came from Changwon

had no wish to be marked a pawn

with birthrate statistics

by clerks or some mystics.

So now she says: "I'll never spawn!"