SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) — In a quiet but meaningful shift reflecting South Korea’s evolving social fabric, the Supreme Court announced Tuesday that a Korean national and their foreign spouse can now register their child’s birth using names of any length—ending a long-standing restriction that effectively barred lengthy names from appearing in official records. [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – As South Korea grapples with a declining birth rate, the country is witnessing a significant demographic shift in its multicultural population. Experts predict a decrease in the proportion of preschool-aged children from multicultural families, while the percentage of middle and high school students, as well as young adults in their [...]
GIMHAE, Mar. 5 (Korea Bizwire) –The city of Gimhae in South Gyeongsang Province, home to over 20,000 registered foreign nationals, announced on March 4 its commitment to facilitating the stable settlement of foreign residents and multicultural families through a variety of supportive measures. The city has decided to extend its foundational learning support for [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Only 40 percent of teenagers from multicultural families enroll in university, raising concerns that they are falling into the ‘low-education’ trap, a survey showed Monday. The Ministry of Gender and Equality conducted a nationwide survey of 15,000 multicultural households, in which only 40.5 percent of teenagers (age 9 to [...]
JEJU, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The Jeju Special Self-Governing Provincial Office of Education said Thursday it had launched a school newsletter translation service on a trial basis for multicultural families with students at four elementary schools on the island. The service is aimed at providing multicultural families with school newsletters written in their native [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is stepping up to help children from multicultural families to attend college. The government held a committee session last week to decide upon relevant policies. Last year, the number of children from multicultural families attending elementary, middle and high school surpassed the 160,000 milestone, setting a new [...]
SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that South Korea’s financial support for foreigners tends to focus on multicultural families, and is inciting an unfriendly sentiment among South Koreans against foreigners. Kim Mi-young, a researcher at Kyung Hee University’s Center for Cross Cultural Studies reported in her recently published thesis that [...]
SEOUL, April 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A new service for immigrant mothers who are struggling with the language barrier translates Korean newsletters that their children bring from school into the mother’s native tongue for free. The Happiness Foundation, a charity foundation run by South Korean energy and telecom conglomerate SK Group, said Thursday that it [...]
SEJONG, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The proportion of babies born to multicultural families out of all childbirths in South Korea reached an all-time high in 2019 due to the country’s low birthrate, government data showed Thursday. The number of babies born to multicultural married couples came to 17,939 last year, down 0.8 percent from [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s government will play a greater role in helping multicultural households overcome various difficulties caused by the coronavirus outbreak, a Cabinet minister said at a forum on multiculturalism Wednesday. Minister of Gender Equality and Family Lee Jung-ok made the promise in her address delivered at the 2020 Multiculturalism [...]