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• Target: Preschooler and lower grade students of elementary school
• Contents: Support for learning of basic Hangeul, basic math, reading & writing etc.
• Inquiry: 11 places of multicultural family support center and family center
  • Multi-cultural family support center: Busanjin-gu, Buk-gu, Haeundae-gu
  • Family center: Seo-gu, Dong-gu, Yeongdo-gu, Dongnae-gu, Saha-gu, Suyeong-gu, Sasang-gu, Geumjeong-gu

• Target: School age children (7yrs. ~ 18yrs.)
• Contents: Psychological counseling for issues such as study, friendship, family etc.
• Inquiry: 6 places of multi-cultural family support center and family center
  • Multicultural family center: Buk-gu, Haeundae-gu
  • Family center: Seo-gu, Dong-gu, Saha-gu, Sasang-gu

• Contents: Multi-lingual children’s books in multi-cultural family support center and family center
• Inquiry: Department of women and family, city of Busan (Phone No. 888-1544)

• Target: Preschoolers over 3 years old
• Contents: Tutoring major subjects of elementary school curriculum including Korean language and assessment tests for learning ability
• Inquiry: Department of women and family, city of Busan (Phone No. 888-1541)

• Current status: 14 places – 5 multi-cultural family support centers & 9 family centers
• Major services: training and counseling for multi-cultural families, interpretation & translation service, and other services including self-help
• Base center: multi-cultural family support center in Nam-gu (Women’s center)

• Target: immigrants by marriage and immigrant children
• Educating organization: 16 places including multi-cultural family support center
• Program: 7 courses (child education, local culture, immigrant children, employment, TOPIK reading, TOPIK listening, TOPIK writing)
  * Available for annual partly support of Korean language textbooks for Korean language education organizations

• Target: female immigrants by marriage
• Contents: preparation classes for qualification exams for elementary, middle, and high school
• Where: Seo-gu family center, Dong-gu • Busanjin-gu • Buk-gu multi-cultural family support center

• Target: immigrants by marriage, multi-cultural family children over 20 years old
• Contents: written & field tests of driver’s license exam
• Inquiry: multi-cultural family support center and family center

• Target: immigrants by marriage
• Contents: Korean history, politics, culture and others
• Inquiry: multi-cultural family support center and family center

• Target: female immigrants by marriage
• Contents: job linked vocational training courses of high demanding occupations
  * Hotel room manager, professional home organizer
• Where: 2 palces of Women’s Saeil center (여성새로일하기센터) in Busan

• Target: female immigrants by marriage registered for job-seeking
• Contents: connection of corporate internship, financial support, etc.
• Inquiry: 11 places of Women’s Saeil center (여성새로일하기센터) (Phone No. 1544-1199)

• Target: female immigrants by marriage
• Contents: basic vocational training and job finding, registration to Worknet and Saeil center linked e-Saeil system
• Inquiry: multi-cultural family support center and family center

• Target: female immigrants by marriage
• Contents: driver’s license, national technical qualification certificate of baking, beauty, computer, barista and others
• Inquiry: Gu and/or gun offices, multi-cultural family support center and family center

(1) Discount on International Express Mail (EMS): post offices in Busan

• Contents: 10% off on international express mails to immigrants’ mother countries (Alien’s registration card or certificate of family needed)

(2) Discount on remittance charges of international remittance: Busan Bank

• Contents: exemption of remittance charges and prime exchange rate (USD, JPY) (Alien’s registration card or certificate of family needed)

(3) Multi-lingual services on disaster alert messages

• Application provided by Ministry of the Interior and Safety (Emergency Ready App) - alert messages in English and Chinese
• Website of Busan Global City Foundation: information provided in 6 languages (Korean, English, Chinese, Vietnamese, Indonesian, and Russian)
• Busan life guidance application (Life in Busan): disaster alert messages in 6 languages (Korean, English, Chinese, Vietnamese, Indonesian, and Russian)

(1) Broaden support for medical interpretation service

• Target: foreigners and multi-cultural families with language barrier
• Contents: Interpretation service at medical organizations
• Languages: 16 languages (English, Chinese, Vietnamese, Mongolian, Thai, etc.)

(2) Support for emergency medical expenses

• Target: female immigrants by marriage before naturalization, foreign workers and their children, refugee, etc.
• Contents: hospitalization, surgery and related medical services (available in 6 hospitals)
• Inquiry: Department of Health and Hygiene, city of Busan (Phone No. 888-3416)

(1) Shelter for immigrant women: 1 place (within 2 years, housing & foods provided, counseling, treatment, support for leaving Korea, etc.)

(2) Emergency support center (Busan branch center of Danuri Call Center): 1 place (Phone No. 1577-1366)

• Service areas: 3 areas of Busan, Ulsan and Gyeongnam
• Service languages: 13 languages including Chinese, Vietnamese, Filipino, Cambodian, Russian
• Contents: 24-hour Hot-Line, prevention of domestic violence, shelter for domestic violence victims, interpretation service, etc.

• Period: April ~ May
• Participants: 100 people of low-income multicultural families
• Organization: Busan center of Korean Medical Institute
• Inquiry: Department of Women and Family, city of Busan (Phone No. 888-1542)

• Target: low-income multicultural single-parent families
• Contents: child support (200,000 won / month), school supplies support for middle & high school students (93,000 won / year)
• Inquiry: apply at administrative welfare centers

• Target: low-income multicultural single-parent families
• Contents: child support (200,000 won / month), school supplies support for middle & high school students (93,000 won / year)
• Inquiry: apply at administrative welfare centers

• Target: multicultural family members
• Contents: Family counseling for better relationship and conflict resolution among multicultural family members
• Inquiry: multicultural family support center and family center

• Target: individuals and/or organizations including multicultural families and foreign residents
• Contents: Interpretation & translation for daily lives
• Organizations: 12 places of multicultural family support center and family center (Vietnamese language)

• Target: multicultural family members
• Contents: educations for gender equality and sensitivity of human rights
• Organizations: multicultural family support center and family center

• Target: fathers of multicultural families and elementary school age children
• Contents: various parenting activities with fathers and children and communication programs
• Inquiry: Department of Women and Family, city of Busan (Phone No. 888-1542)

• Target: immigrants by marriage
• Contents: alliance between multicultural and non-multicultural families
• Inquiry: multicultural family support center and family center

• Targets: public officials, general citizen, facility workers, immigrants by marriage
• Contents: lectures on multicultural society and sensitivity of multiculturalism
• Inquiry: Department of Women and Family, city of Busan (Phone No. 888-1544)

• Contents: multicultural-friendly activities visiting schools, kindergartens, etc. by female immigrants by marriage as community activists
• Employment qualification: immigrants by marriage, residents in Korea more than 2 years, proficient in Korean (TOPIK level 4 or higher)
• Inquiry: multicultural family support center and family center

• Contents: support for communities among multicultural families, self-help groups, communication with local communities, child growth programs, etc.
• Organizations: 3 places of multicultural family support center and family center (Buk-gu, Haeundae-gu, Saha-gu)

• Target: foreign residents and general citizen in Busan
• Contents: harmony with foreign residents and Busan citizens for exchange and communication (pre-ceremony performance, opening ceremony, performance by sister city, cultural experience booths, etc.)

• Target: elementary school students ~ college students, and general citizens who are interested in global cultures
• Contents: various cultures of different countries, global issues, information of 2030 Busan World Expo, etc.
• Inquiry: Busan Global City Foundation (Phone No. 711-6878)

• Objectives: Improving treatment of workers at multicultural family support centers, strengthening the role of base centers, and promoting the improvement of quality of center-provided services through mutual exchanges and communication between integrated centers of multicultural family support center
• Contents :
  • Improving treatment of the workers: overtime payment and welfare points by securing the city budget
  • Strengthening the role of multicultural family support base centers
  • Preventing burn-out syndrome through hands-on craft & cultural activities
  • Encouraging cooperative networks between the centers for continuous exchange and information sharing
• Managing organization: Nam-gu multicultural family support center (base center), city of Busan

* Saha-gu > Sasang-gu > Haeundae-gu > Busanjin-gu > Buk-gu > Nam-gu > Gijang-gun > Geumjeong-gu