Hospital staff attending to new born babies in the nursery ward of the Hospital in Misato city, Saitama prefecture on February 1, 2014.
Cities like Tokyo and Seoul have turned to radical ideas like launching a dating app and giving people money to reverse their vasectomies in order to bolster their declining birth rates.
  • Declining birth rates are a huge problem for Asian countries like Japan and South Korea.
  • Some cities are implementing radical measures, like funding a dating app to raise fertility rates.
  • Experts that BI spoke to say countries should rethink their approach toward the demographic crisis.

Vanessa Lee, 28, knows what kind of parent she wants to be if she ever has kids.

"I want to be very hands-on. I want to be able to give my child whatever they want," said Lee, who got married last year.