Parents preparing Children's Day gifts this year were analyzed to expect an average expenditure in the 95,000-won range. Also, 6 out of 10 parents said they would give Children's Day gifts only up to the sixth grade of elementary school.
From the 16th to the 21st of this month, an English education company, Yoon's, conducted a survey of 622 parents with children in elementary school or younger, and 96% of all respondents said they planned to give Children's Day gifts.
The expected expenditure for purchasing gifts averaged 95,000 won. Compared with the same survey in 2016, when the expected expense averaged 49,000 won, it rose about 1.9 times in 10 years.
To the question of "until when will you give Children's Day gifts," 6 out of 10 parents (59.8%) said up to the upper grades of elementary school. "Until before graduating middle school" (21.4%) was next, followed by "until before graduating high school" (5.0%) and "even after becoming an adult" (3.2%). Parents who said only up to the lower grades of elementary school accounted for 9.8%.
For the Children's Day gifts they most wanted to give their children (multiple responses), "clothing and accessories such as clothes and shoes" ranked No. 1, accounting for 72.7% of all respondents, followed by toys such as playthings and dolls (44.4%) and leisure and sports items such as bicycles (34.2%) in second and third place, respectively. Cash and stocks and other financial assets (30.8%), game consoles (30%), and digital devices such as smartphones and laptops (28.1%) were also sizable.
Regarding Children's Day plans, the most common answer was "we will go to an amusement park or theme park." "Domestic and overseas travel and camping" (21.5%) ranked second, and 21.2% answered "no plans yet."