Major expansion of care centers and public daycare
Expanded night‑extended and part‑time childcare
Dedicated child‑abuse officers and shelter operations
Expanded night‑extended and part‑time childcare
Dedicated child‑abuse officers and shelter operations
Goyang, a city in Gyeonggi Province, has made overcoming the low‑birthrate crisis a central municipal priority and is moving to expand public childcare infrastructure in earnest. The city plans to sharply increase community care centers and public daycare facilities while strengthening night and emergency care and improving the child‑abuse response system to accelerate its goal of becoming a child‑friendly city. On the 5th, city officials said they plan to increase the number of Together Care Centers from 10 sites (capacity: 324) to 18 sites (capacity: 520) by 2027. They will begin by adding two centers this year in the Goyang Janghang district — blocks A‑2 and B‑1 — and will expand in phases.
The new centers will be concentrated in areas with high childcare demand, including the Janghang Newlywed Hope Town and Hwajeong’s Tomorrow Dream Workshop. To reduce budgetary pressure while speeding delivery, the city will adopt a 10‑year rent‑free lease model that uses idle local spaces.
Public daycare centers have also been steadily increased to 109 facilities. The city is proactively enforcing the requirement that newly built apartment complexes with more than 500 households include public daycare centers and is supporting their openings to coincide with move‑in dates.
In March last year, Goyang became the first city in the country to sign a public‑private partnership in which apartment residents share part of the equipment costs. Officials say the agreement reduced financial burdens while increasing trust in public childcare. The city plans to apply this model to future daycare openings to further strengthen the public childcare foundation.
Goyang is moving quickly to close childcare gaps outside regular hours. It shifted part‑time care from mostly standalone classes to integrated classes, substantially increasing capacity. As a result, part‑time care classes rose from seven in 2022 to 43 now (11 standalone, 32 integrated) — more than a sixfold increase.
The city expanded night‑extended daycare centers, which operate until midnight, to 158 sites to meet demand. These centers are also available to children who normally attend other childcare providers, helping dual‑income and single‑parent families who work late.
To prevent child abuse and strengthen protection for victims, the city is overhauling its response system. It has assigned dedicated child‑abuse officers to establish a 24‑hour response capability and is implementing an early‑detection system in coordination with police and child‑protection agencies to investigate and protect suspected abuse cases quickly.
Goyang places abused children in shelter facilities for safe, separated protection and provides follow‑up support such as psychotherapy. Officials say expanding care infrastructure and reinforcing safety nets will reduce the burdens and anxieties parents face.
Mayor Lee Dong‑hwan said, “To overcome the low‑birthrate crisis, we must ease parents’ childcare burdens and create care environments where children can grow up safely within their communities. We will continue expanding public childcare infrastructure and strengthen our care network to make Goyang a great city to raise children.”
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