Presidential Candidates Rally Support, Unveil Policies for Children

Major presidential candidates stumped across the country on Children’s Day, unveiling policies for young kids and students.

With just four days until the presidential election, Moon Jae-in of the liberal Democratic Party(DP) pledged on Friday to introduce so-called no class days for elementary and middle schools and build national and public children’s hospitals in major regions.
 
Conservative Hong Joon-pyo of the former ruling Liberty Korea Party(LKP) reached out to voters in Gangneung, Sokcho and Inje in Gangwon Province and returned to Seoul in the afternoon to continue campaigning in the Yeongdeungpo and Sinchon areas.
 
Ahn Cheol-soo of the centrist People’s Party pledged to increase the ratio of national and public day care centers to 20 percent from the current eleven percent. He also vowed to provide 100-thousand won per child in childcare subsidies up to the age of ten.
 
Yoo Seong-min of the splinter conservative Bareun Party visited the Seoul Grand Park in the capital and pledged to expand childcare leave for parents to three years.
 
Sim Sang-jeung of the progressive Justice Party also announced policies for children and visited Mokpo, South Jeolla Province to console and encourage the bereaved families of the nine victims still missing from the 2014 Sewol ferry disaster.