{
  "id": 8619277,
  "title": "Parental leave benefits for foreign workers double last year",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/20/parental-leave-benefits-for-foreign-workers-double-last-year-8619277",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-09-20T05:47:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Korea Times",
    "slug": "the-korea-times",
    "url": "https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/society/20260920/parental-leave-benefits-for-foreign-workers-double-last-year"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Korean parental leave benefits for foreign workers more than doubled in the past year, according to Ministry of Employment and Labor data released Sunday. Total payments reached 36.45 billion won in 2021, compared to 18.15 billion won the previous year. The number of recipients increased by over 50 percent to 2,031 from 1,354. As of July this year, 1,476 foreign nationals had already received 26.71 billion won in benefits.\n\nForeign nationals accounted for 1.2 percent of total recipients, up from 1.1 percent in 2020 and 1 percent in 2019. Ethnic Korean Chinese received the most support, with 1,154 recipients sharing 22.56 billion won. Vietnamese nationals came in second with 895 recipients and 12.87 billion won. Chinese nationals comprised 27.2 percent of recipients, followed by Americans at 16.8 percent, Japanese at 12.2 percent, and Canadians at 7.7 percent.",
  "summary": "Parental leave benefits paid to foreign workers in Korea doubled over the past year, data showed Sunday. The data, submitted to Rep. Park Soo-min of the People Power Party by the Ministry of Employment and Labor, showed total payments reached 36.45 billion won last year, up from 18.15 billion won the year before. The number of recipients rose more than 50 percent to 2,031 from 1,354. Through July…",
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        "outlet": "Yonhap News",
        "title": "Parental leave benefits for foreign workers double last year",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/20/parental-leave-benefits-for-foreign-workers-double-last-year",
        "published": "2026-09-20T01:20:49.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Korea Times",
        "title": "Parental leave benefits for foreign workers double last year",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/20/parental-leave-benefits-for-foreign-workers-double-last-year-8614547",
        "published": "2026-09-20T05:17:02.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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