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…
