South Koreans still struggle with idea of child support

Park Eun-jeong (not her real name), a single mother of two, suffered a car accident just seven months after her divorce back in 2014. Her husband had agreed to wire 800,000 won ($688) monthly for child support when signing his divorce papers. But he abruptly changed his phone number and stopped paying the funds after learning about Park’s accident.

Severely injured in the spine and unable to work, she relied on the government’s emergency needs allowance for seven months until she was told that she is no longer eligible for the specific benefit.

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