휴직하고 애 키우는 아빠 급증…남성 육아휴직 66%↑<br /><br /> The number of fathers taking paternity leave in Korea jumped nearly 66 percent on-year in the first half of 2018. <br /> According to data by the Ministry of Employment and Labor, more than 84-hundred took paternity leave during the January-June period, rising from some 51-hundred in H1 last year.<br />Men accounted for nearly 17 percent of the 50 thousand who took family leave during the period, marking an on-year spike of some 5 percent.<br /> The numbers suggest the proportion of family leave taken by men could be higher in 2018 than the 13 percent of people who took family leave in 2017.<br />Last year, Iceland had the highest proportion of paternity leave users in the OECD, accounting for 46 percent of the total parental leave. <br />
