South Korea to approve more paternal leaves amid low births

South Korea’s presidential committee on population policy on Tuesday unveiled plans to have up to 70 per cent of fathers take parental leave by 2030 as the government intensifies efforts to tackle the nation’s pressing demographic



challenges.

The figure would mark a sharp increase from just 6.8 per cent recorded in 2022, according to the Presidential Committee on Ageing Society and Population Policy. The rate for mothers stood at 70 per cent in the same year.