Gyeongbuk Province Receives Minister of the Interior Award for 'Marriage Immigrant Women Support Project'... Discovering Foreign Language Instructors

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Jae-ho] The bilingual instructor project for marriage immigrant women promoted by Gyeongbuk Province won the Minister of the Interior and Safety Award (Encouragement Award) at the 'Excellent Case Presentation Contest on Support for Foreign Residents by Local Governments' hosted by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety.

According to Gyeongbuk Province on the 10th, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety first selected 20 cases out of 48 excellent cases submitted by local governments nationwide through internal and external expert evaluations. Then, through an online evaluation involving citizens and foreign residents (Gwanghwamun 1st Street, with a total of 6,924 participants), six excellent cases were finally selected, and the excellent case presentation contest was held online on the 9th.

The 'Bilingual Instructor Job Project for Marriage Immigrant Women' presented by Gyeongbuk Province is a project where marriage immigrant women work as bilingual instructors to provide free foreign language lessons to residents at after-school classes, local children's centers, daycare centers, kindergartens, and eup/myeon/dong community centers.

Gyeongbuk Province started this small-scale project in 2016 with 43 bilingual instructors teaching at after-school programs through a business agreement with the Provincial Office of Education, but has expanded the project scale every year by increasing the budget and even securing sponsorship from Samsung Electronics.

So far, a total of 251 bilingual instructors have been produced by Gyeongbuk Province. Starting with Vietnamese, Chinese, and English, the languages have gradually expanded to include Cambodian, Japanese, Russian, and others.

Lee Won-kyung, Director of the Child and Women’s Happiness Bureau of Gyeongbuk Province, said, "The bilingual talents registered in the central-level bilingual talent registry for marriage immigrants nationwide include 30% from Gyeongbuk Province, demonstrating a high level." She added, "We will actively support marriage immigrant women to strengthen their capabilities through bilingual instructor activities and advance to professional jobs such as professional interpreters."

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