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Maeil Dairies announced on the 8th that it will support the formula milk for the quintuplets born through natural pregnancy for the first time in Korea, in celebration of the upcoming "Pregnant Women’s Day" on the 10th.
On the 20th of last month, the couple Kim Jun-young and Sagong Hye-ran, residing in Dongducheon City, gave birth to three boys and two girls through natural pregnancy. This is a rare case worldwide, and the news of their birth has been a hot topic every day. Maeil Dairies congratulates the birth of the quintuplets and plans to support formula milk for one year, providing the ‘Absolute Premium Goat Milk’ product.
Maeil Dairies promised to support formula milk for one year to the first naturally conceived quintuplets in Korea (nicknamed PangPang Rangers) and held a commemorative photo session. The quintuplets' father, Junyoung Kim, and Jeongsu Go, COO of Maeil Holdings. Photo by Maeil Dairies
Absolute Premium Goat Milk is designed with nutrition that considers comfortable digestion and absorption through goat milk, as well as the healthy growth and development of babies, their immune system, and even golden stools. It is a product that contains the average DHA and lutein content of breast milk based on the breast milk analysis results from Maeil Dairies’ ‘Maeil Asia Breast Milk Research Institute.’
Currently, South Korea is facing a serious ultra-low birthrate problem, and Maeil Dairies is exemplary in practicing family-friendly management. Since starting maternal and child health education leading pregnancy, childbirth, and childcare culture in 1975, the company has operated various family-friendly systems for its employees. In 2015, it was recognized for its pioneering role in creating a work environment that enables work-family balance and improving workers’ quality of life, receiving the ‘Family-Friendly Excellent Company Presidential Citation.’ Additionally, in December last year, it was selected as the ‘Top Family-Friendly Certified Company’ for obtaining family-friendly company certification and maintaining it for 14 years.
Maeil Dairies’ family-friendly management emphasizes the ‘Parenting Companionship’ that supports employees from pregnancy preparation to childbirth and childcare periods. For pregnancy and childbirth, it provides ▲ 1 million KRW per infertility treatment session (unlimited number of sessions) ▲ childbirth congratulatory money (4 million KRW for the first child, 6 million KRW for the second child, 10 million KRW for three or more children, totaling 20 million KRW for three children) and formula product support worth 2 million KRW for one year ▲ congratulatory gifts timed to pregnancy and the child’s first birthday.
Furthermore, it offers childcare support according to the child’s life cycle, including education expenses and group insurance for children, and operates flexible working hours, telecommuting, and family days twice a month so that parents can spend more time with their children. It also grants 10 days of leave for spouses’ childbirth and fosters a work environment that encourages male employees to take parental leave.
For prospective parents among employees and customers, Maeil Dairies provides various services such as the 1-night 2-day prenatal travel event called ‘Babymoon,’ and through its breast milk research institution ‘Maeil Asia Breast Milk Research Institute,’ offers baby health checks via breast milk and baby stool photo analysis, expert childcare information content, and educational counseling.
A Maeil Dairies official stated, “As childbirth and childcare are no longer just individual issues but social responsibilities that companies must share through Parenting Companionship, which is more necessary than ever, Maeil Dairies will continue to carry out various support activities so that employees and society as a whole can reduce the burden of childbirth and parenting and new lives can grow up healthily.”
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