SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean women assume nearly 70 percent of work associated with child care, although they think their spouses should take up more than 40 percent of the load, a survey showed Friday. Women take on 68.6 percent of childrearing, with numbers for men standing at 31.4 percent, according to [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) — More than a quarter of South Koreans are open to the idea of having children out of wedlock, a survey showed Wednesday. About 26.2 percent of those surveyed said they are not adverse to the notion, according to the survey of 3,000 people conducted by the Korea Institute of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Improved benefits and a shift in social attitudes towards childrearing have been two factors driving more South Korean dads to take time off work to be with their children. Statistics disclosed by the Ministry of Employment and Labor on January 25 show a record-setting 12,043 working men in the private sector [...]