The focus of the new drive will be to promote awareness of childcare and child-rearing facilities. Last year’s segment was designed to encourage a more ‘parent friendly’ society and to educate families on the pre- and post-natal care options available to them.
Korea has one of the lowest birthrates in the world, along with Singapore, Japan and Hong Kong. The campaign is expected to run until 2012, by which time the government hopes to have raised the birthrate to 2.1.