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As part of a long-term campaign to promote the status of multicultural families, the government has come to support the use of double languages in such homes. The Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs yesterday launched a multicultural language class in a multicultural family support community center in Dongjak-gu, Seoul. Following Dongjak-gu, 10 more centers across the country will consecutively open such classes to help multicultural children adjust to Korean society and seek their cultural identity. The facilities and programs are sponsored by the Korea Land Corporation and Seogang University. Posters with the slogan "bilingual multicultural children as potential future global leaders" in nine different languages have been distributed in schools, pharmacies, immigration offices and other facilities to promote the campaign. The languages taught in the classes are Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, Philippine, Japanese, Cambodian, Mongolian, Russian and English. The stud...

This is for Cheryle and for those who are planning to register their babies in the Philippine NSO. Hope this helps! These are the requirements: 1. 4 photocopies of the Child's Birth Certificate - in English and should be typewritten/computerized(issued from the maternity hospital) translated in English (The address should be simplified for example: I-Sarang OB GYNE Clinic, Busan, Korea -- 2. 4 photocopies of parents passport (1st page and last) 3. Marriage contract (4 photocopies) 4. 3 passport size Pictures (royal blue background- no hats, wearing shirts with collar and should comply with the standards of applying the regular passport- pls. refer to the DFA homepage for more info about the picture) We had a hard time doing this because we took Chloe's passport pictures in a photo studio in our neighborhood and we had it in white background. The new ID pict was so new last year August, 2008 so we never thought of the changes by then so we resorted to take Chloe's pictur...

Six years ago, I followed my heart. The events from that day seem from a distant planet. Six years ago, I worked as an English teacher in a Korean Language school in the Philippines when I met my husband, Tommy. He looked so strange when I first saw him at the school’s lobby because of his weird eye glasses (white-framed plastic eye glasses where he claimed he got the style from a famous Korean actor, 배용준). I think his strangeness and good looks had led me ponder some thoughts that night before I slept. The next day, to my surprise, he became my student (I was really glad that he enrolled to my class). I found his English very poor and horrible. I remember an instance that he mentioned his forehead as his “ground” and when he said something like "he is at my beside" thing. I burst into laughter when he metioned those lines. But after a few months of studying, his English had really improved a lot. Time passed and I found myself interested with him. I knew somehow that he sec...