It’s Official: A South Korean ministry to help single bureaucrats fall in love

CALL it a ministry of matchmaking. South Korea’s health ministry has decided to help the country’s civil servants to date and mate so as to arrest falling birthrate in the country. According to the ministry’s proposed match-making programme, special social gatherings would be arranged for single bureaucrats with a hope that they would mingle with each other, fall in love and finally get married, a section of media reports said. The reports further quoted an official of the ministry’s human resources development division as saying that it would not be a one-time mass meeting among singles, but regular gatherings would be arranged where singles will be able to meet and mingle naturally.
Helping the country’s single bureaucrats to find their partners is a part of a larger government plan adopted in late 2009 to boost South Korea’s birthrate of 9.09 births out of 1000, one of the lowest in the world.

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