Multicultural Family Support Services
- Multicultural Family Support Services
There are 200 multicultural family support centers in Korea. The centers were established to help immigrant wives or husbands and their families to better adapt to living in Korea. The center provides Korean language education to immigrants, education about different cultures and family, individual and family counseling services as well as life skills training. The center also offers bilingual education for children from multicultural families.- Multicultural family support website : http://www.liveinkorea.kr (Korean/English/Chinese/Vietnamese/Khmer/Tagalog)
- Services
Services Program Descriptions
Educational Programs
-Korean language education
-Education about family(husband and wife∙spouse∙parents-in-law)
-Education about different cultures
-Empowers all members of multicultural families to reach their potentialCounseling Services
-Counseling services (living in Korea∙domestic economy∙job∙human rights∙domestic violence∙sexual abuse)
-Individual and family counseling servicesPrograms for children
-A child-rearing information room within the center
-Programs to improve children’s learning ability
-Programs for children’s language development
-Bilingual education class -Language classes for children from multicultural families -College student mentor program for kids from multicultural familiesLife skills training
-Volunteer work
-Programs for getting a job or starting business
-Immigrants can work as a language teacher, or an interpreter or translatorImprovement of Awareness of Different Cultures
-Relationship
-building with mothers of immigrants
-Organization of groups by nationalityHome Visiting Services
-Child care programs, Korean language education
-Home counseling service - Services info
- Each region has the center which is open from 9:00AM to 6:00PM from Monday to Friday.
- There are 200 multicultural family support centers in Korea as of 2011.
- ☎ Call 1577-5432 to contact the nearest multicultural family support center.
- Multicultural family support organizations in Jeju
Multicultural family support organizations in Jeju Organization Phone
Address
Website
Jeju City Multicultural Family Support Center Jeju Immigrant Center
064-712-1140
6th floor of Eunhye Building, 727 Nohyeong-dong, Jeju City
http://www.jejumc.net
Seogwipo Multicultural Family Support Center Seogwipo Immigrant Center
064-762-1141
303-12 Seogwi-dong, Seogwipo
http://www.jejupeace.net/zbxe/?mid=seog
Jeju Multicultural Family Center
064-727-2114
351 Yeonsam Road, Donam-dong, Jeju City
http://cafe.naver.com/damoonhwa
International Family Cultural Center
064-742-5641
554-1 Hagwi 1-ri, Aewol-eup, Jeju City
http://cafe.daum.net/sadami
- “Guidebook for Living in Korea for Foreigners” download
- Guidebook for Living in Korea for Foreigners_English.pdf
- Guidebook for Living in Korea for Foreigners _Chinese.pdf
- Guidebook for Living in Korea for Foreigners _Vietnamese.pdf
- Guidebook for Living in Korea for Foreigners _Mongolian.pdf
- Guidebook for Living in Korea for Foreigners _Tagalog.pdf
- Guidebook for Living in Korea for Foreigners _Khmer.pdf
