The civic group ‘Political Mothers’ released a survey of 243 daycare centers in local governments and 300 daycare centers for public institutions. The daily lunch fee for daycare centers in Seoul City Hall was the highest at 6,391 won, while daycare centers in Gyeonggi and northern Gyeonggi provinces differed at 4,400 won and 3,200 won, respectively. Each local government is subsidizing some of the meal expenses to compensate for the insufficient costs. However, the situation was different by each local government, where, in some cases, the subsidies were also not given at all, to others, where they provided up to 1,190 won. Against this backdrop, the National Assembly's decision to increase the cost of school lunches was widely welcomed by civic groups and parents. On the one hand, however, concerns have also been raised. This is because there have been a number of cases of corruption that abuse food costs. In fact, a poor diet of daycare centers was recently discovered in Cheongju, where it was found to have deceived parents by sending a picture of a tray full of food not at all like what was actually given. According to a survey of 125 childcare teachers on KBS News, there are even daycare centers that have changed the expiration date from March to August and provided juice past its expiration date to children. The reason why the problem has not been exposed to the public despite frequent irregularities in daycare centers lies in the government's lax management system. The biggest problem cited by teachers who participated in the survey is that the government notifies daycare centers of the inspection before conducting checks. Therefore, daycare centers can avoid government surveillance by simply hiding violations in time for inspection dates.

 With the new 'Kindergarten 3 Act', there are growing expectations that children will be able to have enough food. However, incumbent child care teachers agree in chorus that just increasing the funding may not be enough. In order to ensure children's healthy eating lives, a thorough regular inspection, severe punishment, and a continuous re-confirmation process by childcare authorities are necessary. Also, parents can organize their own monitoring groups to supervise management agencies and to directly check the diets of their children.