It is hoped that the addition of domestic help families with childcare and housework could help lift South Korea's birthrate. - AFP
SEOUL (The Korea Herald/Asia News Network): The government plans to allow South-East Asian domestic helpers to work in Seoul as early as this year, but the pilot project will not include previously suggested provisions allowing employers to pay them below the minimum wage.
In a bid to raise the country’s record-low birth rate, Seoul and the Ministry of Employment and Labour are reviewing a pilot project to bring domestic helpers from countries such as the Philippines to help families with childcare and housework.
