#3_ Multicultural Family_

 Last Monday, the first presenters gave a presentation on Multicultural Family. At first, they introduced who are they and where are they from. Then they talked about present conditions and what the problem they are actually suffering from is. In Korea, there are so many Multicultural Families. Most of them are international couples or foreigners couples living in Korea. However, in general, Multicultural Family doesn’t mean the people from developed countries like most of our ELS professors. So the term Multicultural Family really means one member of their family is from poor counties such as Africa or Southeast Asia. From the presenter said, the number of them is about 1,200,000 and it is getting higher. Therefore, it is very nice topic to share our ideas together, because they are also becoming some part of our society.

 The most important part for me was the difficulties they have had. Some people have got in trouble with discrimination and prejudice. And more serious difficulty is language problem and financial problem. Solution of that is simple. It is to support them with language education and money. According the presenters, some of province of Korea is already helping them that way. I totally agree their thought and policy. Like I said before, since they are also one part of our people, we can’t help supporting them.

 Another reason I totally agree that policy is I was in that kind of situation. To live other country is very hard, because there are some disadvantages such as tax, law. Therefore, we should support them regardless of ways, because no one wants to get unfairness.