A country where the government ask its citizen to go home and have sex

A South Korean couple

It soounds out of this world where a government ask its citizens to go home and get on with it.

Offices turn off their lights at 7 pm on the third Wednesday of every month. Workers are encouraged to get themselves home so that they can enjoy some lights-out action.

South Korea’s birth rate has fell to one of the lowest in the developed world, at 1.187 children per woman in 2013. The low birth rate is in part the fault of a government program to promote smaller families in the 1970’s and 80’s.The South Korean government took other, more creative measures to encourage its citizens to procreate.

In 2010, the South Korean government decided to turn off the lights in its offices at 7:30 p.m. on the third Wednesday of every month—which the government dubbed “Family Day”.

Citizens were officially allowed to have sex with female partner to populate.