A customer browses baby clothes at a department store in Seoul on Oct. 28, 2026. The number of babies born in South Korea shot up 13 percent from a year earlier to 23,703 in August, marking the highest figure for any August since the 24,371 posted in 2019, according to the Ministry of Data and Statistics. (Yonhap)

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