“Understanding the Low Birth Rate in Korea,” said an American reporter who experienced the 8 million won Gangnam Cooking Center

The New York Times reported on the 28th local time

NYT

According to a woman’s experience of entering a luxury postpartum care center in Gangnam after giving birth to a child in Korea, “Seoul’s postpartum care center provides the world’s best service, but it also helps explain why Korea’s fertility rate is the lowest in the world.”

Loretta Charlton, a Seoul bureau editor and Korean-American, introduced in detail the service of the Gangnam postpartum care center she experienced after entering the hospital

“Sleep is one of the best luxury that mothers can enjoy in postpartum care centers,” said editor Charlton, who described mothers breastfeeding in the middle of the night and nurses taking their babies to sleep comfortably Nurses take care of the newborn 24 hours a day, so mothers can relax and get enough rest

“Mothers are cared for in facilities such as hotels for weeks after giving birth,” he said. “It is basic that fresh meals including seaweed soup are provided three times a day, and classes for raising newborns as well as face and whole-body massage services are provided.”

Editor Charlton, who claimed that the high-end cooks attracted mothers by separately hiring nurses, nutritionists, pediatricians, nursing experts, and Pilates instructors, said, “The competition is so fierce that we apply for reservations as soon as we see two lines in the pregnancy test period.”

Editor Charlton emphasized, “One of the attractions of Korean cooks is that you can spend time with other novice mothers with babies of your age.”

The Korean mother who was interviewed said, “People try to make good friends in the cookery, and these opportunities continue throughout the child’s life,” adding, “Korean parents want their child to socialize with people of the same social class.”

He pointed out that class and cost are very sensitive issues in Korean society where inequality is increasing

Editor Charlton said that the high-end postpartum care center in Gangnam, where he was admitted, costs 8 million won for two weeks, excluding services such as face and full-body massage

“The problem is that you have to spend a lot of money starting from entering a postpartum care center, but it’s only a fraction of the total cost of raising a child in Korea,” he said. “It will help explain Korea’s low fertility rate.”

Citing another Korean woman’s remarks, she said, “Even if the postpartum care center is excellent, it is only two weeks, and people are reluctant to give birth because life afterwards is another story.”

httpsnnewsnavercommnewsarticle0810003427222sid=102