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==Declining rate of male circumcision reported==
==Declining rate of male circumcision reported==


Kim ''et al''. (2012) reported a new survey carried out in 2010-11 that found a sharp decline in the incidence of circumcision.
Kim et al. (2012) reported a new survey carried out in 2010-11 that found a sharp decline in the incidence of circumcision. The circumcision rate in the age 14–16 age group had declined over a decade from 88.4% to 56.4%. The circumcision rate in the 17–19 age group Had declined from 95.2% to 74.4%. The authors attributed the decline to the availability of better information on male non-therapeutic circumcision. The authors suggested that the practice of male circumcision is in steep decline in South Korea.<ref name="kim2012">{{REFjournal
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|first=DaiSik
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|last2=Koo
|first2= Sung-Ae Koo
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|last3=Pang
|first3=Myung-Geol
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|title=Decline in male circumcision in South Korea
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|journal=BMC Public Health
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|date=2012-12-11
|volume=12
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|page=1067
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|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3526493/
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|DOI=10.1186/1471-2458-12-1067
|accessdate=2012-01
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