In Korea, the places where chips are made also happen to be where more children are born. “An obstetrician tells me everyone in this neighborhood has two or three kids,” said Shin Jung-won, 39, who has worked as a researcher at Samsung Electronics for 15 years. Due to give birth soon, she has a family plan shared by many residents in the neighborhood: to have two children. Shin lives in Dongtan District in Hwaseong Special City, the place she settled three years ago due to its close proximity to her workplace — a Samsung Electronics campus is located there — and had a young population with many children. That day, as Shin headed to a department store just below her apartment, the indoor space was full of young parents with children, many pushing strollers, even on a weekday morning. Shin herself was also on parental leave. Bonuses are the most frequently discussed subject among her colleagues, according to Shin. Although she is not part of the semiconductor division that received such exorbitant sums, she has heard how many inside the company openly talk about plans to earn 3 bi