생활속에서 공부하는 아이엘츠 - South Korean family planning
한국의 저출산율이 심각하긴 한가 봅니다.하나만 낳아 잘 기르자’던 슬로건은 너무 오래 전 일이 되어 버린 듯?!
정부에서 결혼과 출산을 장려하길 벌써 여러 해
이젠 회사에 늦게까지 남아 일 하지 말고 집에 가서 더 ‘큰 일’에 힘쓰라고까지.. 하핫 -_-;
South Korean family planning
ⓒ BBCSouth Korean government workers are being told to 'go home and multiply'. Tonight the Ministry of Health, concerned about the country's falling birth rate, will force staff to leave the office early and return to their loved ones.
Forget that still unwritten report or the backlog of paperwork building up on the desk, on this cold and rainy mid-week night there can be no excuses to stay late in the office. South Korea's Ministry of Health, Welfare and Family Affairs will be turning off all the lights at 7pm in a bid to force staff to go home to their families and, well, make bigger ones. It will repeat the experiment once a month.
The country now has one of the world's lowest birth rates, lower even than neighbouring Japan, and boosting the number of newborn children is a priority for this government, staring into the abyss of a rapidly ageing society, falling levels of manpower and spiralling health care costs.
The Ministry of Health, now sometimes jokingly referred to as the 'Ministry of Matchmaking', is in charge of spearheading that drive and it clearly believes its staff should lead by example. Generous gift vouchers are on offer for officials who have more than one child and the department organises social gatherings in the hope of fostering love amongst its bureaucrats. But critics say what is really needed is wide-scale reform to tackle the burdensome cost of childcare and education that puts many young people off from starting a family.
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