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`About 130 per minute or about 200,000 every day and about 70,000,000­odd people every year are added to the world`s population of about 4 billion. And if this rate of population growth goes on, the earth on which we live will have been saturatd with more than 7 billion inhabitants, almost two times its present population, by 2,000 A.D. On such an assumption, all the countries of the world are exerting themselves to curb the population growth as much as possible. The population density of Korea stands at 360 people per square kilometer, ranking third in the world family of nations. We would eventually lose our environment in which we can live, enjoying a decent qualiy of human life, if the world population keeps increasing by geometrical progression whereas all the resources for food, clothing, housing and education reserved for us are strictly limited. In order to live a decent life worthy of human beings, we should build a strong and wealthy country which is prerequisite for the building of a stabilized society. And a stable society can be realized only when every and all families live in happiness. Unless we achieve and affluent life and fulfil the parental duty of bringing up children, we can hardly expect to enjoy such a happy family life. Family planning is our pannational campaign under the slogna. ``Daughter of Son , Stop at Two and Bring Them up well.Only when this national campaign is carried out successfully, can the peace of not only each individual but also for the community, state and the entire world be brought anout and maintained. Korea is now in a stage of transition from the status of a semi­advanced country up to that of an industrial country. We can never offord to have this effort of ours for becoming an advanced country hampered by such an old way of thinking as ``A living mouth never goes hungry.`` or ``Babies are born with their food.`` The Ministry of Communications is issuing this definitive postage stamp is the hope that all the people of our country positively take part in the nationwide movement and contribute to the building of a welfare state, fully understanding the importance of this campaign for family planning.`