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Opening of the ‘4th Seoul Youth Council’ Seoul hosted the 4th Seoul Youth Council on May 11-12, 2019. The 4th Seoul Youth Council was comprised of the Seoul Children and Youth Participation Committee, which includes young people from 25 autonomous districts with experience in youth-participatory organizations, as well as youths hoping to become active in...   Read more

Seoul City Hall will be hosting the “11th Job Fair for Married Immigrants” on the basement floor of Seoul Citizens Hall at 1 p.m. on April 5, 2019. Seoul’s Job Fair for Married Immigrants is a job fair specialized for immigrants who came to Korea for marriage. Businesses hoping to hire married immigrants as interpreters...   Read more

The universal Elementary Dolbom program will be launched in Seoul to fill childcare gaps during after school hours, vacations, and holidays for dual-income or single-parent families with elementary school students. With an emphasis placed on infant and childcare, Seoul expanded the number of national and public childcare centers to 1,500 centers over the past seven...   Read more

In a time in which gender discrimination in the workplace is still rampant, the Seoul Foundation of Women & Family will be holding the “Making Workplaces Equal for Female Youth” conference on March 11th (Monday), 7 p.m. in the Seoul Women’s Plaza’s 2F Gender Library in order to commemorate International Women’s Day on March 8th...   Read more

Three actual photos containing images of Korean ‘Victims of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan’ will be revealed for the first time at the national exhibition held in commemoration of the March First Independence Movement centennial. One photo is of the late Park Young-shim, who testified to her sufferings as a comfort woman, fully pregnant and...   Read more

Last year, Seoul City installed emergency sanitary pad dispensers in 11 public facilities including youth centers, libraries, and welfare centers that are frequented by youths and women upon receiving a high satisfaction rate from users and operating agencies, with no problems of misuse despite earlier concerns. Seoul will largely extend the number of facilities with...   Read more

Seoul will launch a pilot project for the installation of emergency sanitary pad dispensers in ten public restrooms starting October 8th in order to ease the inconveniences that women may face in everyday life and promote women’s health rights. The ten locations at which these dispensers will be installed are: ▴Gwangjin Youth Center, ▴Guro Youth...   Read more

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