Seoul launches the "Happy Parenting Program", and close relatives will get 300,000 won per month for infants and young children.

[Global Times Comprehensive Report] South Korea's "East Asian Daily" reported on the 18th that starting from 2023, South Korea has assisted close relatives who take care of infants and young children to get a care allowance of 300,000 won (1,000 won, about 5.13 yuan) per month. On the same day, Seoul launched the "Happy Parent Plan" containing the above content. The mayor of Seoul, Wu Shixun, said: "This project is a good place for childcare to raise children with parents from 0 to 9 years old."

According to this plan, Seoul City will issue a care allowance of 300,000 won per month to the close relatives who take care of children aged 0 to 3, for the longest one year. If you look at 2 young children, the monthly allowance is 450,000 won, and the three children are 600,000 won. If parents hire a nanny to take care of their children, the babysitter can get a voucher of up to 300,000 won per month. But only those with low income can apply for the child's subsidy. Relevant sources in Seoul said that many parents of young children under the age of 3 believe that "raising children is very difficult and there is no reliable childcare facilities." In addition, Seoul City has also implemented the "Sick Children's Temporary Hospital Packing Service" from the same day. The service content is to replace the parents of dual employee parents to send the sudden illness to the hospital and temporarily take care of them. In order to strengthen parenting services, Seoul plans to provide "Children's Cafe" to 400 "Children's Cafe" to take care of children's services by 2026. Before August next year, the construction of the "Seoul Mom and Mom Happy Platform" website will be completed. In order to increase parenting, Seoul plans to train 1,100 infant caregivers by 2026. In addition, in order to encourage parenting vacation, the Seoul Municipal Government plans to provide a "mother -in -law parental vacation encouragement" of up to 1.2 million won from next year.

Seoul plans to invest 14.7 trillion won funds for the "Happy Parent Plan" in the next five years. The relevant person in charge of Seoul City said: "The original intention of the plan is to realize the concept of" growing with Seoul City ", so that children aged 0 to 9 in the process of growth will be better taken care of. Different difficulties faced during the parenting process provide more services. "

"South Korea Economy" reported on the 16th that with the intensification of South Korea, the South Korean population has been in negative growth for the first time in 72 years in 2021. The number of new Korean babies in 2001 was about 500,000, but only about 260,000 last year. Some experts predict that according to the current population decline, the population of South Korea is expected to drop from the current more than 50 million to less than 18 million by 2100. (Zhang Jing)

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