[Newsmaker] Paternal leave a luxury mainly for civil servants, conglomerate employees in S. Korea
Social affairsSept 26, 2018
The vast majority of Korean men who take parental leave are either civil servants or full-time workers at the nation’s large conglomerates, with male employees at small and midsized businesses either unable to take it or choosing not to, a lawmaker’s office revealed Wednesday. According to Rep. Shin Bo-ra of the main opposition Liberty Korea Party, 70 percent of Korean men who have taken paren...