KBS has decided to create a YouTube channel that parents exhausted from child-rearing can trust and watch. It is named "Yeouido Child-rearing Quitting Club."
"Yeouido Child-rearing Quitting Club" will provide personalized content for parents who enjoy the sweet time that arrives after their children fall asleep, known as "child-rearing quitting (육퇴)," beginning March 4. The channel will encompass not only stories that can foster empathy about dating, marriage, childbirth, and parenting but also various child-rearing information that parents may have missed while raising their children.
The KBS YouTube channel "Yeouido Child-rearing Quitting Club" features four fathers (Gwak Beom, Sam Hammington, Sleepy, and Song Ha-bin) as MCs discussing relatable child-rearing stories. For families who are more accustomed to spending time on their smartphones even while in the same house, it also proposes a healthy family game culture. Ha Ha and Nam Chang-hee, who are familiar to elementary school students, will offer laughter and healing by forming a generational bond through a simple and friendly game called "eraser game."
Additionally, for families wondering where to go on holidays or weekends, the channel will introduce various hidden outing spots in the region, as well as reworking and presenting various child-rearing-related news, entertainment, documentaries, cultural programming, and music programs from KBS that were missed while caring for children.
Meanwhile, KBS will not lose sight of the crisis of low birth rates through regular broadcasts. From March 4 to 16, during the "6th Low Birth Rate Response Broadcasting Week," it will focus on news and programs aimed at overcoming the low birth rate crisis.
First, KBS's main news program "KBS News9" will concentrate on reporting a planned news segment discussing the impact and problems of the low birth rate phenomenon on education, as well as long-term solutions from March 4 (Tuesday) to March 8 (Saturday).
Through KBS Radio, which interacts with listeners 24 hours a day, various planned programs addressing low birth rates will be prepared. KBS 1 Radio will air a 'Low Birth Rate Crisis Overcoming Campaign' narrated by Son Yeon-jae, a former rhythmic gymnast and mother of a baby, from March 10 to 16 for a week.
There will also be continuous broadcasts aimed at creating consensus around "fatherhood in child-rearing." The program "KBS Open Debate" will host a discussion on March 13 on the topic "The Future of Child-rearing Changed by Fathers," while "Today's Morning 1 Radio" will discuss the value of fathers' parental leave on March 14 under the theme "Together Raising Tomorrow - Finding Hope Amid Low Birth Rates." The program "Jung Kwan-yong's Current Affairs Headquarters" will broadcast a series on "Paldo Da-dungi" over three weeks on March 8, 15, and 22.
KBS 2 Radio's "Eun Ga-eun's Shining Trot" will air for five days from March 10 to 14 under the theme "Our Shining Children, Safely and Happily," providing helpful parenting information and encouraging songs for parents and expectant parents, produced and broadcasted by AI, along with live guest appearances by parents of multiple children.
Additionally, various special broadcasts reminding families of their importance will continue through 2FM, including "Ha Ha's Super Radio" and "Good Day to Love, Lee Geum-hee." KBS, under the slogan "Our Children, Our Future," launched the 'Low Birth Rate Crisis Response Broadcasting Team' in June last year, becoming the first media outlet to do so, and plans to continue programs aimed at overcoming the low birth rate crisis throughout 2025.
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