Foreigners are likely to account for one tenth of Korean population in 2050, as the Korean population will be decreasing rapidly and inflow of people from abroad will be accelerating[.]
We've mentioned it before, but hopefully in the next 40 years they will find a better way to refer to non-Koreans than "foreigners." The t-shirt can read "We repopulated your neglected rural areas and stabilized your declining birthrates, and all we got was this lousy label." And with the increased number of . . . those people, it doesn't seem likely that Koreans will use more native Korean words, though the report, titled 그랜드 비전 2050, doesn't appear to address that.
Titled "Grand Vision 2050: Analysis on future changes that will affect Korea," the report predicted changes in the Korean demographics, the international and domestic economy, the Korean peninsula's climate change, and rapid growth of IT, bio, energy industries and culture as the dominant power for the global economy.
According to the institute's report, the proportion of foreigners out of the total population will rise from 0.11 percent in 1990 to 5 percent in 2020 to 9.8 percent in 2050.
There will be four million "foreigners" in Korea in 2050, the report says. Go ahead and read the rest of the summary.
If you're interested in another projection, the government predicted that in 2020, half of the children born in Korea's rural areas will be biracial. That's because not only are they importing a lot of foreign women, but because a lot of young Koreans are leaving these areas.
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If I'm still here in 2050 can you shoot me in the face please.
It's not clear if they are referring to foreign nationals making up 9.8%, foreign-born whether they're ROK nationals or not, or those who are not ethnically Korean.
If they are referring to the former, then "foreigner" (though it's a word I never liked) is correct. If they're lumping in ethnically non-Koreans who have ROK citizenship then it's wrong. Since the term "biracial" (which should be multiethnic or something) is used in the article to refer to some of the latter, the word "foreigner" might not be referring to that group.
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