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首尔市多文化政策 Seoul Multicultural Info. Seoul City Multicultural Policy

As the number of multicultural families continues to increase, Seoul Metropolitan Government promotes customized policies such as providing Korean language education, professional employment education, and children's education with the aim of strengthening marriage immigrant capabilities, supporting education for multicultural children, strengthening healthy multicultural family relations in order to strengthen the self-reliance capabilities of multicultural families.

Business Name Business Overview Department in Charge Contact Info

Development of a safety net for multicultural families

  • - Counseling center and temporary shelter for marriage immigrants in Seoul
  • - Professional, comprehensive counseling services for multicultural families and support for victims of violence
Multicultural Department Multicultural Support Team
Seoul Counseling Center for Migrant Women

02-2133-8693
02-733-0120

Protection and rehabilitation facilities for marriage immigrants

  • - 11 Women’s Emergency Hotline 1366 Seoul Centers
  • - 11 Counseling centers for victims of domestic violence
  • - 11 Protection facilities for victims of domestic violence
  • - Counseling centers for migrant women victims of violence (NamSeoul Center for Migrant Women)
Multicultural Department Multicultural Support Team
NamSeoul Center for Migrant Women & Children in Crisis

02-2133-8693
02-2038-0173

Operation of childcare facilities for multicultural children

  • - Designation and support of multicultural integrated daycare centers
Infants Department Specialized Childcare Team

02-2133-5089

Basic learning and career planning support for multicultural families

  • - Support for basic learning of children from multicultural families: Support for learning basic Korean, Math, as well as to improve school adaptability of children from multicultural families attending elementary school
    (17 locations for basic lower-grade learning support, 8 locations for higher-grade learning support)
  • - Planning support for children of multicultural families (ages 7- 24) : 10 Locations for professional psychological counseling and career/employment consulting
Multicultural Department Residential Environment Improvement Team

02-2133-8685

Educational activity support for children from low-income multicultural families

  • - Support for educational activity expenses such as textbooks, teaching material purchases, and online class tickets for children from low-income multicultural families (KRW 400,000 per year for elementary school students, KRW 500,000 for middle school students, and KRW 600,000 for high school students)
Multicultural Department Residential Environment Improvement Team
Family center in the relevant district

02-2133-8685

Home-visit study for multicultural children

  • - Multicultural family and children of foreign residents (ages 2-15)
  • - Home-visit study for basic school subjects (choose 1 from Korean, English, Math, Social Study or Science)
Multicultural Department Multicultural Support Team

02-2133-8696

Provision of customized care services for multicultural families

  • - Care services before and after child birth for multicultural families
    (Hallym University Kangnam Sacred Heart Hospital : 02-6960-1045)
  • - Hourly basis child care services for multicultural families in the family center
    (Guro-gu Family Center: 02-869-0317)
Multicultural Department Multicultural Support Team

02-2133-8696

Online & offline provision of daily living information

  • - ‘Hanultari website’ for multicultural families in Seoul(www.mcfamily.or.kr)
  • - ‘My Seoul,’ a smartphone app for multicultural families (in 4 languages)
  • - Publish e-book providing information for multicultural families
Multicultural Department Residential Environment Improvement Team

02-2133-8698

Youth Soccer Club

  • - Soccer classes for children from multicultural families (ages 5-12)
  • - Application available at FC Seoul website (www.fcseoul.com) and Hanultari website (www.mcfamily.or.kr).
Multicultural Department Multicultural Support Team

02-2133-8696

Career and university admission support for children from multicultural families

  • - Career and university admission programs for migrant youth and children from multicultural families
  • - On-site consultation for university entrance exams for prospective students from multicultural families
Multicultural Department Residential Environment Improvement Team
Foreign Resident Team
Multicultural Support Team

02-2133-8685
02-2133-8689
02-2133-8697

Empowerment education support for employment of multicultural families

  • - 1 Employment-focused agency for multicultural families
  • - 6 Employment education programs (offered in 6 locations)
  • - Job fair for marriage immigrants (once a year)
  • - 10 Locations for customized vocational training for marriage immigrants in each region
Multicultural Department Residential Environment Improvement Team

02-2133-8685

Public-private cooperation project to support daily living of multicultural families

  • - Cooperation project with Woori Multicultural Scholarship Foundation
    ① Scholarship support for children from low-income multicultural families
    ② Support for weddings for multicultural couples (10 couples per year)
    ③ Support for financial education for marriage immigrants and children of multicultural families
  • - Seoul Regional Post Office: 10% discount on International Express Mail Service (EMS) for multicultural families
  • - Seoul City Safety Support Department: Conducting fire safety education for multicultural families
Woori Multicultural Scholarship Foundation
(Multicultural Department Multicultural Support Team)

02-2125-2121~4
(02-2133-8697)

Selection of candidates recommended by institutions for multicultural family national housing supply

  • - When supplying (pre-selling) national housing by Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH) to those eligible for special supply agency recommendations for multicultural families who are members of the non-household generation are selected and recommended to the relevant agency.
Multicultural Department Multicultural Support Team

02-2133-8696

Support for multicultural families self-help groups and native language education

  • - Support every theme activities of multicultural family self-help groups
  • - Support for native language and intercultural awareness education for children and spouses from multicultural families
Multicultural Department Multicultural Support Team

02-2133-8696

Monitoring Foreigner’s Daily Living in Seoul

  • - Organization of a monitoring group to present opinions on inconveniences and improvements in daily living from the perspective of foreigners
Multicultural Department Foreign Resident Team

02-2133-8699

On-site Cultural Diversity Education

  • - Target: Civil servants, general citizens and kindergartens and elementary/middle/high schools in Seoul (new)
  • - Period : March to December 2024
  • - How: Foreign instructors of different nationalities (40 instructors from 21 countries) will visit institutions to conduct education.
  • - Contents: Introduction to various cultures and education to improve awareness including experiential activities
Multicultural Department Foreign Resident Team

02-2133-8691

Operation of facilities supporting foreign residents

  • - 1 Seoul Foreign Resident Center
  • - 6 Migrant Workers Center
  • - 7 Global Village Centers
  • - 1 Seoul Global Youth Education Center
Multicultural Department Foreign Resident Team/td>

02-2133-8688
02-2133-8689
02-2133-8690

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