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The bill will affect around 40,000 daycare centers in Korea starting March. Lawmakers say that this bill will ensure that daycare center teachers are properly monitored and reduce the cases of child abuse.

The bill will also improve daycare center employees' working conditions. On average, an employee works 9.3 hours per day and is paid 1.31 million won (approx. $1,200 USD) per month. Lawmakers say they will reduce their hours and increase their pay, saying this will also help prevent child abuse.

This bill will be addressing a recurrent problem that has been happening in Korea for a while. While one day care center teacher was caught tying a 4-year-old's wrists together in November, another forced his/her students to eat bugs, another threw a 2-year-old child to the ground repeatedly, and most recently, two different Incheon day care center teachers were caught on CCTV slapping or punching their students in the face.