'2023 Gangseo-gu Multicultural Festival' Held

‘2023 Gangseo-gu Multicultural Festival’

Held at Gomdallae Cultural Welfare Center from 10 a.m. on the 20th with family events

Various experiences and performances to understand and communicate multiculturalism

Eliminating prejudice and discrimination and practicing companionship with socially vulnerable groups

Gangseo-gu, Seoul (Mayor Kim Tae-woo) will hold the ‘2023 Multicultural Festival and Family Event’ at Gomdallae Cultural Welfare Center in Hwagok-dong from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the 20th.

The multicultural festival is an event where multicultural families mingle more with local residents and understand and empathize with each other's cultures without prejudice and discrimination against multicultural families. It is being held for the first time in four years since COVID-19.

In particular, Mayor Kim Tae-woo has set companionship with socially vulnerable groups as a core goal of district administration and has worked to establish systems that can help the stable settlement of multicultural families, such as educational and cultural systematization for parents and children of multicultural families and support for healthy family life.

Reflecting this administrative philosophy well, this festival will be held under the slogan ‘Companionship is good 多 (Da), embracing diversity 多 (Da),’ featuring various programs such as ▲Performance Stage ▲Participation Zone ▲World Food Festival to understand multicultural families and practice companionship.

First, as a pre-event, the multicultural youth orchestra and choir will showcase the beautiful melodies and harmonies they have honed for this event, marking the start of the festival.

Following this, the opening ceremony at 10 a.m. will include the selection and awarding of exemplary couples in five categories: couples who have spent a long time together over 75 years old, harmonious couples from multicultural families, and happy couples with multiple children.

At the performance stage, various world cultural performances will delight the audience’s eyes and ears, including a fashion show featuring traditional costumes from around the world, talent shows by multicultural families, Chinese face-changing art (Bian Lian), and multicultural puppet plays.

In the participation zone, family love events such as sports day for fathers and children and missions expressing family love will be held, along with exciting play and experience activities like trying on traditional costumes from around the world and making international flag bracelets.

Additionally, the ‘World Food Festival’ offers diverse foods from countries such as Vietnam, the Philippines, Mexico, and El Salvador, and there will be a marketplace where visitors can purchase unique goods and foods from various countries.

Mayor Kim Tae-woo said, “I hope this event will be an opportunity for all 3,840 multicultural families residing in Gangseo-gu to feel that they are important members of our society and precious neighbors,” adding, “We will create a Gangseo-gu that practices no discrimination and always accompanies the vulnerable so that multicultural families can adapt well to unfamiliar environments and live harmoniously.”

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.