Seoul steps up school support for immigrant youth

Seoul will strengthen educational and emotional support for immigrant youth with a range of expanded programs to facilitate their integration into school life. Immigrant youth are those who enter Korea between ages 9 and 24 after being born and raised abroad, including children of multicultural families, overseas Koreans and those born abroad to North Korean defectors who married foreign nationals. The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Monday the expanded programs are available at the Seoul Global Youth Education Center in Yeongdeungpo District, where key programs include Korean language classes on weekday afternoons and weekends. To accommodate students' schedules, the center has expanded its class hours to run weekdays from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. For immigrant youth newly enrolled in university and struggling with academic language and peer relationships, the center offers tailored mentoring and multilingual peer counseling led by fellow immigrant youth who majored in psychology. To further expand its reach, the center signed agreements in February withWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times