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South Korea's birth rate continues to climb, with 23,703 babies born in August, a 13% increase from a year earlier and the highest for that month in seven years, according to government data released Oct. 28. This marks the 26th consecutive month of year-on-year growth, the longest streak on record, and births from January to August totaled 193,783, up 14.5% from the same period last year, the highest since 2019. The Korea Times and Yonhap both report the figures, with KBS World noting the data comes from the national statistics office.