Sarah in the City

A friend sent me this link:

South Korea Told To Go Home and Have Sex
Posted by Johnny Wright

Apparently South Korea has one of the lowest birth rates in the world. This is a concern. The Ministry of Health has announced that the country will be shutting off the lights in office buildings one evening a month so workers can go home and build babies. Seriously. Every third Wednesday evening: Go home and bone. If you are of Korean ancestry, I would click on that link, print it out, then go tell your boss that every third Wednesday you will be requiring the afternoon off to have intercourse. It is your patriotic duty. "Orders of the Ministry of Health, sir. Gotta head home and diddle the wife." Then loosen your belt and sing the South Korean national anthem.

This friend, ###, took this too literally and told me he's coming over to fulfill his patriotic duty (we live in the US and I doubt he's a Korean citizen) after he pulled this line on my roommate who had already sent me this link. Ridiculous, Cho...but at least it's funny.

But seriously. WOW KOREA! It's come to this!

S.Korea orders lights out to boost birthrate

I'm kind of embarrassed that this how they've decided to deal with it. I'm pretty sure there are more intelligent ways to acculturate Korean society into seeing procreation (having babies) as a positive addition to the quality of our lives.
Although I would think twice about having my ideal set of 4 munchkins if I had to be crammed into those apartments.

Me thinks...someone just got really lazy. Shameful...