SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — From bedtime stories to discipline dilemmas, South Korean parents are increasingly turning to ChatGPT to help raise their children—ushering in what many see as the beginning of an AI-assisted parenting era. The phenomenon, dubbed “ChatGPT parenting,” has taken off across online communities, where parents share how the generative AI tool not [...]
JEONJU, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Educational support workers in South Korea’s North Jeolla Province rallied on March 6 to protest discriminatory treatment in maternity and childcare benefits compared to their civil servant counterparts, highlighting growing tensions over workplace inequality in the education sector. “Is it a crime to be a public service worker? It’s [...]
SEOUL, March 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Presidential Committee on Aging Society and Population Policy announced on March 4 that it will begin formal discussions this month to develop its fifth basic plan (2026-2030) for addressing the nation’s declining birthrate and aging population challenges. The announcement follows the committee’s ninth emergency population meeting, held virtually [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — An innovative childcare support program in Seoul offering 300,000 won monthly to grandparents caring for two-year-old children has revealed a striking pattern: maternal grandmothers comprise more than half of the participating grandparents. According to a policy review by the Seoul Foundation of Women and Family, maternal grandmothers account for 54% [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government said Monday it will offer exceptional incentives to small and medium-sized companies that implement childbirth and child care promotion systems, such as payment of money gifts for birth and flexible work hours. Incentives, such as the supply of replacement workers, extra allowances for co-workers of [...]
SEJONG, Mar. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – In South Korea’s rapidly aging society, where the government has been scrambling to encourage childbirth through expanded parental leave benefits, a significant segment of the workforce finds itself left out: the self-employed. Park Chang-hyun, 34, works as a delivery rider in Gwangju. When he recently inquired about parental leave allowances [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Internet parenting communities are abuzz with posts from parents who have returned to work and are struggling to find childcare solutions, such as hiring a nanny, for their children’s school pick-ups and drop-offs. Many parents are resorting to various channels like second-hand sales sites and apartment group chats to find [...]
INCHEON, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – On the first day of 2024, a joyous event took place at the Gachon University Gil Hospital: the birth of a healthy baby girl weighing 3.4 kg. The newborn, affectionately nicknamed ‘Horam’, combines the characters ‘Ho’ from her father Choi Ho-kyu (40) and ‘Ram’ from her mother Kim Bo-ram (36). [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — As the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage on, smartphone apps that assist in child rearing are gaining popularity. The usage rate of Brush Monster, an augmented reality (AR)-based app for children developed by Kitten Planet to teach them how to brush their teeth, has quadrupled since the onset of [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Low-income foreigners raising a child of Korean nationality alone will be eligible for the government’s monthly childcare support of 200,000 won (US$180) per month. The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family said that the Cabinet passed the revision of the enforcement ordinance of the Single-parent Family Support Act on [...]