Smaller countries like South Korea are already facing manpower issues due to declining birth rates and competition from larger nations like China with vast manpower resources.

We devote around 150 people to a single game, but China puts in between 1,000 to 2,000. We lack the capacity to compete, both in terms of quality and volume of content,” Kim said (via machine translation).

I do think in this case with declining birth rates and smaller developer pool will affect smaller nation being able to compete with larger nations and not to mention less immigration happening.

IGN: https://www.ign.com/articles/one-person-can-perform-the-work-of-100-people-boss-of-stellar-blade-developer-says-it-needs-to-use-ai-to-compete-with-overwhelming-manpower-of-china-and-us-studios?taid=696970f6fcc5960001d31540&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Manual&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter