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Since the fact that Sayuri had a child in Japan was known, inquiries from women who would like to have a child even if they are not married have continued in Korea.

It has emerged as a social issue, but it is still impossible in Korea.



Reporter Min-pyo Kim looked into the reality that social consensus or discussion needs progress, but that is not going well.



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Jung Jae-jin, who produces video content, says she has passed the age of marriage but has no intention of getting married.



[Jeong Jae-jin/Media Artist: The burden of living as a career woman while maintaining the family life is too great.] I



gave up giving birth, but when I saw Sayuri's birth, the frame of thought was broken.



[Jeong Jaejin/Media Artist: Huh?

Sayuri is the same age as me, but that friend is very smart.

(I think I want to keep the egg frozen).]



Inquiries from women are continuing at domestic sperm banks to see if they can have children with donated sperm.



[Park Min-jung/Professor, Korea Public Corporation Bank Research Institute: (Did you have more inquiries after Sayuri's birth?) Yes, there are a few.

(How do you guide?) If you are a non-married woman, I will tell you that it is not yet possible in Korea.] The



government and the ruling party say that it is not illegal, but the ethical guidelines of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Society require sperm donation procedures only for couples in marriage or common-law relationships. It says that.



[Yijungyeop / Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology Society of assisted reproduction Committee: is clearly prohibited, nor does this does clearly due to permit it to some legal ambiguity that does not institutions in readily difficult to continue it true -



say Sayuri said that in Korea illegally It's not wrong.



[Sayuri/Broadcaster: It is legal to be a (single) examiner in Japan.

However, in Korea, only married couples can test tubes.]



Sayuri said that both the right to be born and the right not to be born are women's rights, sparking a debate about women's right to self-decision.



[Sayuri/Broadcaster: If it is a woman's right to undergo an abortion, isn't the right to have a baby also a woman's right?

I think so.] In



order for unmarried birth to be institutionalized, this sensitive and debated social consensus is required.



[Kim Ji-young Yoon/Professor of Konkuk University Body Culture Research Institute: Most of the tax policies, housing policies, medical policies, and welfare policies have been reorganized around the so-called normal family, a kind of normal family centered on paternal ancestry. Problems with ideology (there is.)] The



support side is that the system should embrace diverse families apart from the male center.



There is also clearly an objection to the collapse of family order and bioethics.



[Park Sang-eun/Former Chairman of the National Bioethics Review Committee: I am concerned that it may be a very important starting point that makes it difficult for society and the country to be well in the end because it can destroy the family.]



Unmarried at a public hearing recently hosted by the Ministry of Gender Ethics A plan was proposed to promote the policy toward recognizing households and communities living together as families.



However, the issue of unmarried birth is not being discussed in earnest.



Ten of the 27 EU countries have long coordinated conflicting opinions to allow unmarried births.



It is time for a serious discussion about the question Sayuri posed to our society.



(VJ: Taek Yoon, screen provided: YouTube'Sayuri TV')