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̹ 湮 ū ΰ ' å ý' ܸ ̰ ؿ ӹ ִٴ ̴. û ȯ Ĵ ٹڶ Ϻ ѵ Ư , ߰ ٹ Ʒ ϻ . ġϸ δ ֹϱ , 㳷 ϴ ʱ ε κε ⸦ ηϴ Ѱ ߾ ߴ. ȭ û ȿ ȸ Ѹ ؼϰڴٴ ü ɰ Ѵ.
Դٰ ΰ پ ϰڴٴ ü Ῡ Ǽ . ų ݺǴ ü 湮 װ Ͻ ̹ ̺Ʈ ҸǾ , ε Ǻη ü ִ ٹ Ȯ볪 ݿ Ƴ ȭ ħ ̾ ߴ. ſ ϴ ٸδ ȭ ϱ ƴ.
ᱹ ̹ 湮 ݷ ִ ຸٴ ģ ຸ ϱ ״ ش. ̵ θδ ϰ 縳ϴ 븦 . δ ü ִ ÷̸ ﰢ ߴؾ Ѵ. ߽ ֱ ݿ ҿ ִ 24ð Ȯϰ, ȯ ü ģȭ ϴ ƾ ϴ.
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Minister of National Defense Ahn Gyu-baek requested, "As we are moving toward a system where the state takes responsibility for child care so that all children today can be healthy and happy, the role of the Ministry of National Defense headquarters daycare center is very important. I hope you will take care of the children with love and sincerity so that the ministry employees can concentrate on their work without the burden of childrearing." This is a remark made by the minister who visited the child care site in line with the timely context of Family Month, emphasizing the justification of balancing work and family. This warm encouragement from the leadership and the praise for the meticulous nutritionist seem flawless as a typical beautiful story to decorate media press releases. However, covering up the harsh reality of front-line soldiers suffering from single-parent childrearing due to remote area assignments, emergency standby, and frequent moves, and highlighting only the well-equipped workplace daycare center at the Seoul main office is hard to avoid criticism as a typical 'showing-off performance administration' that distorts the essence.
The biggest blind spot of this on-site visit is that the aspect of the 'state responsibility child care system' put forward by the Ministry of National Defense stays at a highly limited and patronizing level. The excellent child care environment and tailored diet benefits of the headquarters daycare center are merely privileges restricted to some beneficiaries working at the headquarters, and cannot be an alternative to the care vacuum experienced by frontline out-of-camp soldier families where night shifts and training are daily routines. Before the minister commends the hard work of the faculty and orders devotion to work without the burden of childrearing, he should have faced the structural limitations of why entry-level officers and military couples serving the national defense night and day are afraid to have children. The idea itself of resolving the deep-rooted thirst for child care within the military through a one-off tour staged inside a flashy government building proves a serious detachment from the field.
Furthermore, the declarative phrase that the Ministry of National Defense will continue various efforts to improve related systems to prepare a working environment where work and family can coexist is also close to an evasive public promise lacking concreteness. The minister's visits to child care facilities, repeated every year during Family Month, have been consumed as a temporary event for image enhancement, and have not led to practical budget support such as expanding flexible working hours or solidifying support for joint childrearing centers in remote areas that soldiers can skin-feel. A sentimental approach that conveys gratitude to the dedication of an individual nutritionist in the field makes it difficult to expect the upward standardization of the deformed military child care infrastructure.
In the end, the defense minister's encouragement visit to the daycare center shows the inertia of exhibition administration to package a high-ranking public official's pro-people steps rather than building a substantial welfare infrastructure. Directing them to take care of children with love and sincerity alone cannot build a strong military where work and family coexist. The Ministry of National Defense must immediately stop superficial media play that picks one facility to show off. Instead, breaking away from the Seoul-centered showy child care administration, it should expand the 24-hour permanent care infrastructure that remote area soldier families can also enjoy without alienation, and pour administrative power into forward-looking institutional reforms that remodel the military service environment itself to be family-friendly.
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2026.06.02(ȭ) 01:21
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