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So many kids have had fun with their families, but some are lonely and harder on May 5. They're kids whose mom or dad is incarcerated in a correctional facility. There are people who help them get along like any other age.

Reporter Park Ha-jung contributed to this report.

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Carefully pack dolls, cars, and toys that children will love.

[(How old are you going to your friend?) Kindergarten friends.]

The yellow card also read, "I'm sorry we couldn't be with you."

Handwriting received in advance from parents in correctional facilities is sent to the children along with gifts.

[Iruni/Sejin Association Planning Team: Actually, the children of prisoners did not choose their parents.]

Every year, we prepare Children's Day and Christmas gifts, travel together, and take care of them so that they can live a life no different from other children.

According to a Justice Department survey last year, more than 5 percent of the respondents had minor children, an estimated 20,1 as a percentage of total prisoners.

Since incarceration, the most common answer was that the spouse took care of the children, but there were also a number of people who said that they were alone or did not know the situation of the children.

In an in-depth investigation by the NHRC, some children reported that they "moved to steam rooms because they had no place to live" and that they "couldn't go to school because they had to take care of their grandmother instead of their father."

[Lee Il-hyung/General Secretary of the Sejin Association: The lack of adults and adults who can talk to each other is what these children struggle with the most.]

The beginning of interest is to look at it from an unbiased perspective, no different from other children.

[Lee Il-hyung/General Secretary of the Sejin Association: (To a friend) 'My dad is in prison right now' (talking) I opened my mind, and a lot of kids found out. They get fingered. Children who live with stigma are so hard and sick.]

(Video Interview: Kim Seung-tae, Video Editing: Shin Se-eun)