Gwangyang Steelworks Conducts 'Visiting One-Day Special Lecture' for Migrant Women

Sharing Knowledge About Iron and Introducing Settlement Support Programs

Special Lectures at a Total of 16 Local Children and Multicultural Centers

POSCO Gwangyang Steelworks (Director Lee Jin-su) held a 'Visiting Gwangyang Steelworks One-Day Special Lecture' for multicultural migrant women at the Gwangyang City Family Center on the 19th.

The visiting one-day special lecture is a program where steel interpreters, who are professionals promoting the steelworks to clients and affiliates visiting Gwangyang Steelworks, directly deliver various knowledge to students on the theme of 'steel,' which is always present in daily life.

Jung Julie, a migrant woman working as a steel commentator at Gwangyang Steelworks, is giving a special lecture at the Gwangyang City Family Center.
Photo by Gwangyang Steelworks

Following the first half of the year, when lectures were conducted at a total of 36 classes across 12 schools selected by the local education office, Gwangyang Steelworks will expand the target audience from the second half of the year and hold lectures at a total of 16 local children and multicultural family centers.

As the special lectures are expanded to include multicultural migrant women, information was provided on various Gwangyang Steelworks programs that offer practical support for multicultural family settlement, such as hometown visit programs, interpreter training projects, puppet troupe development projects centered on migrant women, and volunteer group-linked sharing activities.

Additionally, the lectures were divided into beginner, intermediate, and advanced classes according to Korean language proficiency, and for the beginner and intermediate classes, where Korean is less fluent, explanations were also provided in English to enhance communication and ensure that participants do not miss out on useful information due to language barriers.

In particular, Jeong Julli, a steel interpreter at Gwangyang Steelworks who settled in Gwangyang in 2012 after leaving her home country, participated as an instructor, listening to the concerns of the attendees and offering solutions, making the lecture even more meaningful with empathy.

Jeong Julli, steel interpreter at Gwangyang Steelworks, said, “Talking with migrant women reminded me of myself about ten years ago, so I could empathize with many aspects,” and added, “I will strive to deliver useful information to more multicultural migrant women in the region through this lecture.”

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