{"id":35422,"date":"2014-01-15T18:53:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T18:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=35422"},"modified":"2014-11-08T18:53:15","modified_gmt":"2014-11-08T18:53:15","slug":"govt-to-overhaul-services-for-multicultural-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=35422","title":{"rendered":"Gov&#8217;t to overhaul services for multicultural families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/english.yonhapnews.co.kr\/national\/2014\/01\/15\/84\/0302000000AEN20140115006800315F.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gov&#8217;t to overhaul services for multicultural families<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/english.yonhapnews.co.kr\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yonhap News Agency<\/a><br \/>\nSeoul, South Korea<br \/>\n2014-01-15<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:sshim@yna.co.kr\" target=\"_blank\">Shim Sun-ah<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Yonhap) &#8212; The government plans to streamline its support system for multicultural families to help them integrate into society, officials said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes as some existing services, including Korean-language education, have been redundant or failed to reach those in need who are in distant rural areas.<\/p>\n<p>Under the plan, immigrants can learn the Korean language at local government-designated locations in their respective neighborhoods and earn incentives that would later be helpful when they apply for citizenship, according to the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, only those who successfully finish a Korean-language course offered by the justice ministry are eligible for incentives such as exemption from a written test or an interview when they apply for naturalization.<\/p>\n<p>The nation&#8217;s two call immigration centers &#8212; one for marriage immigrants and the other for foreign residents in general &#8212; will be integrated, so they can more effectively serve the foreign population, the ministry said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;The envisioned new organization will offer various support for children raised by single parents, grandparents or North Korean defectors, as well as in multiracial families, the government said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/english.yonhapnews.co.kr\/national\/2014\/01\/15\/84\/0302000000AEN20140115006800315F.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov&#8217;t to overhaul services for multicultural families Yonhap News Agency Seoul, South Korea 2014-01-15 Shim Sun-ah SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Yonhap) &#8212; The government plans to streamline its support system for multicultural families to help them integrate into society, officials said Wednesday. The move comes as some existing services, including Korean-language education, have been redundant or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,8,26,394],"tags":[16767,228,16766,229,16765],"class_list":["post-35422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","tag-cho-yoon-sun","tag-korea","tag-shim-sun-ah","tag-south-korea","tag-yonhap-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}