SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A 37-year-old worker referred to only as Kim was asked to leave right after he brought his wife and new-born twins to rest at a postnatal care center. After the resurgence of COVID-19 in South Korea in recent days, the nation’s postnatal care centers shifted their policy towards banning [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — One in four parents who took parental leave in the first half of the year were fathers, data showed Thursday, as more of them opted to stay home for child care as schools closed amid the new coronavirus outbreak. The number of men who went on parental leave in [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of fathers taking paternity leave is increasing rapidly. According to the Ministry of Employment and Labor on Sunday, in the first half year, of the total 53,494 cases of parental leave in the private sector, 20.7 percent, or 11,080 cases were paternity leave. The number of men [...]
SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Growing up, Kim Hye-joon longed for a nurturing paternal figure that his own failed to give. His father, deeply patriarchal and inflexible, rarely tried to listen to his son and punished more often than he communicated. Now the father of a daughter in her 20s, for the past several [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — On the first Friday evening of every month, Jeong So-hee does her makeup meticulously, dons nice clothes and the best of her jewelry before heading out for a 10 p.m. appointment that comes with a special set of rules. The first such rule for the girls’ night event with [...]