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Busan Publishes 2025 Childbirth and Childcare Promotion Booklet (Leaflet)

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Busan Metropolitan City announced the publication of the 2025 “Like You, Treasured – Childbirth and Childcare in Busan” promotional booklet (leaflet), which provides easy access to various information from marriage and pregnancy to childbirth and parenting.

This booklet (leaflet) is a comprehensive guide published annually by the city to present childbirth and childcare policies in an organized and easily understandable format for all citizens.

It includes 95 projects across six major areas, such as:

• ●Housing support for newlyweds

• ●Pregnancy and childbirth support

• ●Parenting and childcare support

• ●Care services

• ●Work-life balance

• ●Support for families with multiple children

Notably, this year’s booklet has been updated to include eight new projects newly introduced by the city and the central government, as well as updates to existing projects such as changes in eligibility criteria or expanded support amounts.

The eight newly added projects include:

• ●“Together for Life – Youth Housing Expense Support Project”

• ●Support for essential expenses for children’s homes

• ●Busan-style postpartum care support

• ●Discounted parking fees for pregnant women at public parking lots

• ●K-Pass refunds for families with multiple children

• ●Subsidies for purchasing electric vehicles for such families

• ●Shared work burden allowance to support coworkers during parental leave

• ●Dispatch of domestic and childcare assistants for women with disabilities

The booklet also reflects revisions to existing policies, including:

• ●Relaxed eligibility for housing loans and interest support for newlyweds

• ●Increased hourly subsidy rates for the babysitter service

• ●Changes related to Parental Leave and Holiday Support for working couples due to the enforcement of the Childcare Support Act from February this year

The city is distributing the booklet through local health centers, town and district offices, childcare support centers, women’s hospitals, Dalbit hospitals, and at the “Deullak Nallak” center in City Hall.

It will also be introduced at events promoting awareness for shared parenting and other childbirth and childcare-related programs.

Reflecting last year’s high interest from both institutions and citizens, the city increased this year’s print volume by 20% to 20,000 copies.

The booklet is also available digitally on the “Like You, Treasured” website (www.busan.go.kr/childcare).

It will also be made available as an e-book through the Busan Library and National Library of Korea websites in the near future.

Park Seol-yeon, Director General of the Women and Family Bureau of the city, stated:

“Thanks to the efforts of the city, related organizations, and private companies, the number of births has been increasing since last year through the first quarter of this year.
We will continue to identify and expand supportive policies for childbirth and parenting so that children can grow up happy and healthy.”