Busan -- As the ASEAN-ROK Commemorative Summit got underway in Busan, a conference on multicultural families in South Korea was held Tuesday. The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family and the Korean Institute for Healthy Family co-hosted the 2019 Multicultural Families Network Conference at the Busan Tourism Organization Arpina on Tuesday.More than 100 people attended the event to share their opinions on Korea’s multiculturalism policies, including multicultural families and experts.&ldqu

A Korean-language speech contest will take place on Nov. 24 at the Multicultural Family Support Center in Yongsan-gu, central Seoul.This is the fourth year the contest will be held. Twelve expatriates who pass a preliminary round of evaluation will be invited to speak at the final competition.Participants are to write their own speeches on topics concerning why they love Korea and what about Korea draws them to like it. The occasion will serve as a chance to think about how policies in Korea for

Foreign spouses share their experiences on spending Chuseok with their in-laws

The back of the door in Sungkyunkwan University professor Navrati Saxena’s office is covered in photographs. The pictures are of current and former students, who come from across Asia and sometimes farther afield to study with her, but to Saxena it is something of a family tree.While some now work in industry, others have set up their own labs, and now have their own students.“I always say my Ph.D. students are like my children, and then their students are like my grandchildren, so we are academ

On a humid July afternoon, a dozen foreign residents descended on the Yongsan Center for the Disabled to help local disabled students in their monthly cooking class.The volunteers came from all walks of life. Some took time off from their full-time work. There were also teenagers from a local international school and stay-at-home parents.“It is a good way to know Korea,” said Cielo, a full-time worker currently on summer break. This was her first visit to the center. “I have only been here (in S

As expenditure on private education continues to soar, a volunteer group is determined to narrow the English divide.Every second and fourth Saturday of the month, Bruce Lee leads a small group of native English speakers to an outer neighborhood in Seoul to offer a free English class for underprivileged children.The nonprofit group, called Beyond the English Divide, is the brain child of Lee. Since its first volunteering session in October 2017, the group’s services have experienced strong growth

Refugee applicants band together with expats, locals band together to help fill gaps in providing food and shelter

If timing is all important in stage drama, there will be no margin for error in the Gwangju Performance Project’s next production.

Ven. Pomnyun, a celebrated Buddhist monk here, will hold a special talk with the English-speaking expat community in Korea on June 15 for two hours from 7-9 p.m. at the Jogyesa Temple in Jongno-gu, Seoul.The occasion is prepared for the growing population of foreign residents in Korea to join in the conversation regarding the recent developments related to South and North Korean relations. A simultaneous interpreter will help run the program.According to Jungto Society, a humanitarian group led

It’s 20 minutes into the class and children’s illustrator Korky Paul is waving his shin in the air. He pulls back a trouser leg to reveal a shock of yellow and red as he exhorts his elementary school audience to come up with drawing ideas.The class is one of a series of workshops last week at Dulwich College Seoul. School visits are something he tries to fit in twice a month over most of the academic year.“You just see what the kids enjoy doing, what they enjoy reading, and what makes them laugh