<Anchor> This is a
friendly economic time. Today (the 21st) I will be with reporter Han Ji-yeon. Let's solve the low fertility problem. With this in mind, the government has come up with policies to be implemented from next year?
<Reporter>
Yes, there are about five in total. Let's take a look at parental leave first. In fact, men are still paying attention to taking parental leave.
In particular, after a dual-income couple has given birth, one of them has to quit the company in the end.
This is welcome news for dual-income couples. If you both take a leave of absence within one year of having a child, you get a kind of bonus.
They are not paid together, but 100% of their wages, up to 3 million won per month, respectively. They say it is paid for the first 3 months, so you can calculate the date well and get 6 million won each and 18 million won for 3 months if you take a leave of absence together and get the maximum amount.
This policy is actually intended to encourage fathers to use parental leave a lot, but in a survey of 1,000 working dads last month, only 20% of working dads experienced parental leave.
It's not easy to do childcare alone, so there's a saying 'solitary parenting'. On weekdays, it was about one in five that mothers were in charge, but only when this kind of 'solitary parenting' disappears can Korea become a country where they want to have children.
Let me ask you a question first. Under these conditions, can a man be able to take parental leave well?
<Anchor> What
a reporter just explained all the time is that the government will preserve the wage loss caused by parental leave. However, even if the government preserves the wage loss, it is not easy to use it because the company is noticing it.
<Reporter>
That's right. The most likely reason for men's hesitation on parental leave, 46%, was that it was because of this atmosphere, "What kind of parental leave is a man?"
Also, another policy to make it easier to take parental leave in the future is to cut wages a little less. The salary, which was only half paid until this year, will be raised to 80% of the salary from next year.
However, if this happens, the company will not want to send it, and it will eventually create an atmosphere like an infinite loop that makes people notice. If the company is willing to send it, you will need support from the company as well.
When an employee with an unborn child in a small business takes parental leave, the company receives 2 million won per month for the first 3 months and 300,000 won thereafter. In addition, even if the child is past one year old, each child can receive 300,000 won.
<Anchor>
Actually, giving birth like this is a little worrisome, perhaps because of the thought that raising a child costs a lot of money.
<Reporter>
That answer came out the most in the survey. 9 out of 10 working dads said they don't want to have more children.was more than half with 51.3%.
There should be some generous support for childcare costs. 'Infant Allowance' has been newly established, and from January next year until the age of a child, 300,000 won is paid per month. It is said that this will gradually increase to 500,000 won by 2025.
In addition to this, I decided to give 2 million won for this first meeting pass, and an additional 1 million won by increasing the pregnancy and childbirth medical expenses voucher by 400,000 won.
If this happens, you will receive 3.3 million won in the first month as soon as the child is born. Earlier, if a couple took parental leave together, they each pay 3 million won a month. It is calculated that you can receive up to 9.3 million won in the first month.
<Anchor> When it comes
to raising children, the most difficult thing is childcare. So, in order to increase the childbirth rate, shouldn't there be more facilities that can take care of children and raise them?
<Reporter> A
few years ago, I went to Gochang, Jeollabuk-do, to report on Dadungi Village. To mothers, "What is the reason for having so many children?" When I asked this question, I said, "I don't feel burdened with having children or raising them." Actually, this is the correct answer.
In the case of Gochang-gun, it was the first county-level childcare center to open and provide various programs. Also, perhaps the most important thing, national and public daycare centers take care of children under the age of 5 for 24 hours.
So from next year, the government decided to build more national and public daycare centers.
We will build 550 each year, so that by 3 years later, we will achieve 50% of the use of public childcare.