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==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.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 |last=Kim |first=DaiSik |init= |author-link= |last2=Koo |first2= Sung-Ae Koo |init2= |author2-link= |last3=Pang |first3=Myung-Geol |init3= |author3-link= |etal=no |title=Decline in male circumcision in South Korea |trans-title= |language= |journal=BMC Public Health |location= |date=2012-12-11 |volume=12 |issue= |article= |page=1067 |pages= |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3526493/ |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=23227923 |pubmedCID= |DOI=10.1186/1471-2458-12-1067 |accessdate=2012-01}}</ref>
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