South Korea sends home workers 'to make babies'

The South Korean ministry of health is switching the lights out at all its buildings tonight so staff will leave work and go home to their wives and husbands for a romantic evening.

The plan is to increase the country's birth rate, which is one of the lowest in the world. The country has a rapidly ageing society and spiralling healthcare costs.

Staff in the department who have more than one child are given gift vouchers, and the ministry organises match-making gatherings.

Officials intend to repeat the lights out experiment every month