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Awareness surrounding the rights and systems that exist to protect children’s human rights has raised since 2012. Seoul City released the 2017 Survey on Rights of the Children and Youths on the subject, including the results of the survey. This survey was addressed to 4,252 children and youths, parents, teachers, and facility workers last June-July,...   Read more

The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) will increase the number of children’s forests in Seoul to 400 so that children can play hard and grow up healthy. Forests will be built in green areas of each village to increase the number of children’s forests by nearly tenfold by 2023, with the goal of having one forest...   Read more

The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) will operate the ‘Seoul Trade Academy for Foreigners’ with the goal of raising 750 trade experts among foreigners who wish to begin a trade startup in Seoul. The ‘Seoul Trade Academy for Foreigners’ began operating in 2015 at the Seoul Global Center as an organization to support the financial independence...   Read more

The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) will build 300 additional public daycare centers in 2017 by spending a budget of KRW 165 billion. This will raise ‘accessibility,’ parents’ top priority in selecting a daycare center. In 2012, there were 1.5 public daycare centers per neighborhood that took over an average of 25 minutes to reach by...   Read more

After the project during 2014~2016 by the Seoul Metropolitan Government and the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education to improve the state of 440 restrooms across elementary, middle and high schools, which had poor standards of cleanliness, the student satisfaction regarding the school restrooms reached 97%, which is remarkably high. It means the satisfaction regarding what...   Read more

Seoul created “The Adventure Playground” at the entrance of Choansan Mountain in Chang-dong, Dobong-gu. Adventure playgrounds are known as Adventure Parks and Play Parks in Europe and Japan, which are nature-friendly playgrounds that have been widely spread abroad. The adventure playground is a new concept playground as the original aspect and the direction it pursues...   Read more

On Dec. 20th, the SMG announced the SMG Childcare Vision 2020 composed of 18 projects in five sectors with the aim of realizing public childcare service both in quality and quantity. The five sectors include: ① improvement of childcare service in both quality and quantity, ② fostering a carefree childcare atmosphere, ③ fostering a pleasant...   Read more

1. Sign up 2. Select the residential area 3. Set the expected arrival time 4. Register user information 5. An agent dispatched 6. Press “complete” after getting home   Seoul Metropolitan Government launches “Get-Home-Safely Scout (안심귀가스카우트)” app for women on November 2nd, 2016. Citizens who want to use this service can download “Get-Home-Safely Scout (안심귀가스카우트)”...   Read more

According to the 2015 Survey on Single Parents conducted by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, the health of single parents was disproportionately poor, and 20.8% of single parents said they could not afford going to the hospital. Financial difficulties were a recurring reason given for the lack of health care services, indicating the...   Read more

On July 4 (Monday), the Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) held the first general meeting of the Foreign Residents Council for receiving policy suggestions at Taepyeong Hall, of the new Seoul City Hall. Roughly 100 people participated in the meeting, including all members of the Foreign Residents Council, Uhm Kyusook, Deputy Minister for Gender Equality and...   Read more

The SMG disclosed a plan to increase the number of women protection facilities, particularly those returning home late at night, from the present 673 to 1,000. The new plan will use big data Seoul Policy Map regarding spatial information that analyzed the following: ▲ areas where there are many women living alone, ▲ sex crime-prone...   Read more

  In 2016, the Seoul Metropolitan Government will carry out a project aimed at transforming dilapidated park playgrounds into safe and creative spaces for children. The transformation of twenty selected playgrounds will be completed by the end of the year through the participation of local residents. Funding for the overhaul of eighteen of the twenty...   Read more