Yeongdeungpo-gu District Mayor Jo Yu-jin attended the 21st Expectant Mothers' Day commemoration Wednesday afternoon at the performance hall of the Seoul Mullae Youth Center.
The event featured an opening ceremony, a prenatal music concert and a lecture by Kim Tae-hee, an obstetrics and gynecology professor at Soonchunhyang University.
In the lobby, two booths ran alongside the main program — an "A Father's First Step" experience booth where expectant fathers could try on pregnancy simulation suits, and a "Seoul Baby Health First Steps" information booth offering one-on-one consultations with infant health nurses.
"In the future, the true measure of a great city will not be economic indicators but how many children are born and how well they grow up," District Mayor Jo said. "I will work hard alongside the expectant parents who joined us here today to make Yeongdeungpo a city that leads Seoul into a birth rate of 1.0 and becomes the best place to raise children."
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