Korea demography reader for March 9, 2010

• The Economist has a story on the "war on baby girls" (which it calls "gendercide"), or how technology has conspired to wipe women off the face of the Earth. It addresses how "technology, declining fertility and ancient prejudice are combining to unbalance societies," and South Korea gets an honorable mention in this one. [HT to Wangkon by email]
• A Hannara Party lawmaker  is saying that only 47% of all immigrant children in the ROK (those who arrive after birth, not those born in South Korea to immigrants) receive formal education in South Korea due to a lack of language skills, while that number drops to 30% for high schoolers.
• One in four people around the world still believe that a woman's place is in the home.
• Meanwhile, South Korean men and women agree housework should be shared, but they don't always agree on what that exactly means.
• Females in South Korea have overtaken males in university admissions (more here).