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Growing Number of Stay-at-home Moms Preparing for Gov’t Employee Examinations

SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of married women are simultaneously engaged in child-rearing, homemaking, and studying for government employee examinations. An online study forum for government employee exams, with more than 350,000 members, has over 160 related posts written by female students. Most of them are women who had to suspend [...]

Moms Unite to Share Child-rearing Burdens, but Where are the Dads?

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 [...]