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Civil servant's death highlights world's lowest birth rate
Published Sun, Feb 26, 2017 · 09:50 PM
Seoul
TRYING to raise the world's lowest birth rate is among the missions of South Korea's welfare ministry - a challenge starkly illustrated when one of its own working mothers died at her office.
The 34-year-old woman was an elite employee who had passed the highest category of the highly competitive civil service entrance exams.
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