The Bak Jeonghui government tried to control population growth through family planning as a method to both escape from poverty and spur on economic development. The family planning work of the Bak Jeonghui government started after the coup d’etat in 1961. In 1962 a family planning information bureau was set up in the headquarters of the Citizen’s Reconstruction Campaign (Jaegeon Gukmin Undong), and from the beginning of 1963 special education on family planning was given to 29,000 female citizen campaigners across the country. The family planning work of the 1960s was also incorporated into the New Village Movement in the 1970s.
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Town (Myeon) residents’ meeting on New Village family planning
Hanging signs read “Comfortable households in the two child campaign” and “Carry out family planning and make the nation prosperous”. Personal photograph from Hwasun-eup (town), Hwasun-gun, Jeollanam-do. 1977.
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Information bureau on family planning in Jeongnim-ri (village), Yanggu-eup (town), Yanggu-gun, Gangwon-do
Photograph from 1964, when family planning work was being actively promoted. The Town Mayor is dispensing handouts in front of the family planning office. Personal photograph from Yanggu-eup (town), Yanggu-gun, Gangwon-do.
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Activities to promote family planning (1)
Street performance to spread the two child campaign. Personal photograph from Anyang 1(il)-dong (town), Anyang-si (city), Gyeonggi-do (province). 1977.
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Activities to promote family planning (2)
Personal photograph from Anyang 1(il)-dong, Anyang-si, Gyeonggi-do. 1977.
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Activities to promote family planning (3)
Personal photograph from Anyang 1(il)-dong, Anyang-si, Gyeonggi-do. 1977.
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Activities to promote family planning (4)
Personal photograph from Anyang 1(il)-dong, Anyang-si, Gyeonggi-do. 1977.
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Certificate
1966 certificate presented to the Village Head of Anyang 3(sam)-ri where family planning work had been carried out well. Personal photograph from Anyang 3(sam)-dong (town), Anyang-si, Gyeonggi-do.