The government is considering measures allowing grandparents to take child care leave under certain conditions, following the increase in grandparents participating in child-rearing.
President Yoon Suk Yeol promised more state scholarships, study abroad opportunities, tax benefits and savings programs for young people in a town hall meeting Tuesday.
A recent survey found that 27.1 percent of women face illegal forms of discrimination in the workplace for getting pregnant, married or requesting parental leave.
Sixteen-thousand fathers left the workforce last year to raise children, but women are still bear a vast majority of parenting responsibility.
Doctors continue to leave their patients in protest of the government’s plan to increase the student quota for medical schools.
Go_U stopped all activities back in April 2023 due to personal health issues. Blitzers will continue its activities as a six-member boy band as of Monday.
The council said the proposal is part of a broader shift to providing universal welfare benefits away from means-tested measures.
The DP leader agonizes over a increasing departure of lawmakers to take a different path.
Former DP leader Lee Nak-yon announced that he will leave the party on Thursday to create a new party ahead of the April 10 parliamentary elections.
Professional women’s golfers in Korea could soon get paid for giving birth, according to a new childbirth incentive for athletes on the sport’s domestic tour amid a nationwide population decline.
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