SEOUL: Trying to raise the world’s lowest birth rate is among the missions of South Korea’s welfare ministry—a challenge starkly illustrated when one of its own working mothers died at her office.

The 34-year-old woman was an elite employee who had passed the highest category of the highly competitive civil service entrance exams.

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