Light those candles and turn on your hanguk equivalent of Barry White, South Korean workers! According to USA Today, the Korean Ministry of Health is cutting the power in its building today, in the hopes that their employees will go home and make babies and help reverse the country’s struggling birthrate.
The monthly “Family Day” event has been instituted because the Ministry’s average birth rate is clocking in below that of other employment sectors in South Korea at 1.16 children per couple.
I think this is a genius idea. In all my employment history, I can only remember bosses saying things like, “Hey, it’s the last day before Memorial Day weekend. Take off an hour early.” It was never, “I’m cutting the lights and kicking you out because I’m seriously worried you’re not having enough sex” or “Do it for your country!”
But this isn’t the first time Korea, as a state, has encouraged babymaking. The Love Land sex park on Jeju Island has gotten international notoriety as a honeymoon destination that encourages amour among its newlywed visitors and also serves as a center for sex education.
So Happy Family Day to our brothers and sisters in Korea! I hope you’re still getting paid today…
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And I think national baby-making holidays are a great idea! Love it!
I was a South Korean orphan, adopted by an American family. As was my little boy cousin. We both feel incredibly blessed that not only were we incredibly well-cared for as orphans (I was in a Catholic orphanage in Inchon, and my cousin was loved – and coddled like crazy! – by his wonderful foster parents), but that we were adopted into the most loving, accepting and generous of families.
South Korea set the platinum standard as far as I can tell to ensure that its orphans received not only adequate but really first rate care. I think that many American families will be very sad that they will no longer be able to adopt Korean orphans. I hope that Korean families will welcome all those needy children into their homes as their “own” children, just as my cousin and I were welcomed without reservation here.
God bless all my fellow orphans out there.
Family day, is this a joke? Korea, stop international adoptions and take care of your own!
This is hilarious. Obama, make this happen for the US!