Population policy is a part of development policy, As long as the development plan of the nation exists. A population policy, whatever pattern it may assume, should be maintained, As the official statistics of the government indicates, there has
been an
increase in the number of eligible women until the middle of 1990's while population growth rate has also been increasing since 1988. At the same time, it is observed that some age specific fertility rates are also increasing. The present
situation
of
the nation is faced with the secondary population explosion of the baby-boom generation after the Korean War becomes the enormous pressure to the development.
The family planning that is complacent with quantitative performance of services has some structural problems in terms of quality such as high proportion of induced abortion, unwanted pregnancy, and sterilization that is highly dependent on the
government free charge program. If we are not concerned about these problems of population and family planning program, the situation might become critical, impeding the national development. Recognizing that every problem of our society is
related
to
population problems, we should overcome the weakness of the present population policy. Population policies need to be further set up for the provision of family planning services for some special groups (the urban poor, residents living in remote
areas), appropriate distribution of population, improvement of population quality, and population planning for the welfare society.
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