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Youth unemployment has long been the norm! We have achieved our dreams of becoming members of society with difficulty, but what choice would we make if we had to give up our jobs just because we got married and had a 'child'? Workers who are busy with work and struggling with childcare and eventually have to give up one thing are repeating themselves in 2023, not just 20 years ago. Among them, the reality is that 'working mothers' are still taking a break from their careers. As of April of this year, there were 1.34 million women who took a break from their careers, and the overwhelming reason was 'childcare'. In order to not give up work, you have to leave your children with your grandparents or a care center all day instead of working moms and dads, or give up marriage or childbirth. Experts analyze that the recent 'ultra-low birth rate' phenomenon is significantly related to this. Are work and childcare still an impossible challenge in our society? The 9th Floor Current Affairs Bureau examines the difficulties of raising children by examining the cases of a family of three who ended up having a career gap after trying to balance work and childcare, and a dual-income couple where the grandparents were fully mobilized to raise their grandchildren in order to protect the mother's career, and explores the path our labor market should take through the cases of mid-sized companies that have fully implemented flexible work hours and childcare leave. Reporter: Cha Ju-ha Filming: Jo Seon-gi Kang Woo-yong Video editing: Lee Sang-mi CG: Jeong Ye-na Researcher: Lee Jeong-hoon AD: Yoo Hwa-young Kim Young-il #Ultralowbirthrate #Lowbirthrate #Workingmom #Careergap #Career #Dualincome #Singleincome #Reemployment #M-shaped #Flexiblework #Flexiblework #Childcareleave Air date: November 25, 2023 9th Floor Current Affairs Bureau