Ministry of Gender Equality and Family Strengthens 'Bilingual Learning' for Multicultural Children

Training Marriage Immigrants as Bilingual Coaches

The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family announced that it will strengthen support for bilingual learning among multicultural children and adolescents.

On the 2nd, the Ministry explained the 'Bilingual Family Environment Creation Project,' which includes this plan. The purpose is to create an environment where children of multicultural families can communicate in the language of their immigrant parents from early childhood.

The Ministry has bilingual coaches assigned at family centers for multicultural families with children under the age of 12. As of this year, 210 bilingual coaches are deployed nationwide. The plan is to hire and train marriage immigrants as bilingual professionals to contribute to self-reliance support and job expansion.

Previously, since 2014, the Ministry has been promoting the 'Bilingual Family Environment Creation Project' to enable children of multicultural families to learn bilingualism. Starting this year, customized bilingual classes have been operated for multicultural children and adolescents under 12 years old, and operational guidelines have been distributed.

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To create a bilingual environment, education on the importance of bilingual use and awareness improvement will be provided to immigrant parents and Korean spouses. For families participating in the program, coaching and home visits will be conducted upon request. Bilingual classes for children of multicultural families will also be operated.

Kim Hyun-sook, Minister of Gender Equality and Family, stated, "Supporting multicultural children and adolescents to grow into global talents is one of the important national tasks of the Yoon Suk-yeol administration," adding, "We will actively support multicultural children to develop their bilingual strengths and grow into talents for our society."

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