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...
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