Seoul will be hosting 2019 Play Seoul Week, a campaign for ameliorating playing environments for children, enhancing their rights to play, and improving civic awareness about playing. The play week will be held in parks and playgrounds for children throughout Seoul. This event was planned and is being conducted by the Seoul Play Civil Network,...   Read more

The Seoul Counseling Center for Migrant Women is the first special counseling center for migrant women established by the city of Seoul in September 2013. In order to create the center, the city combined the counseling center and the rest area, providing one-stop counseling services. Located on the 4th floor of Seoul Global Center (38,...   Read more

Seoul’s Safe Parcel Service for Women, which has only been available for use upon reception, can now be used when sending parcels. Women may now use an unmanned Safe Parcel Locker near one’s home with more convenience and safety ensured. With over 2,012,000 cumulative users having used the Safe Parcel Receiving Service that was introduced...   Read more

  The city of Seoul will be offering parking spaces exclusively for the use of pregnant women in public parking lots and parking areas attached to public facilities. These parking spaces will offer an ample amount of space in order for pregnant women, who may find it difficult to get in and out of the...   Read more

Seoul announced that it will be pursuing a pilot project for reading called “Seoul-type Book Start Reading Project” for toddlers 18 months old or less and their caregivers starting in 2019. The project aims to expand the opportunity of enjoying reading culture for toddlers and caregivers who find it inconvenient to go to a library,...   Read more

In order to celebrate the 8th World Population Day, Seoul will be hosting a variety of cultural events, including the Child-Rearing Golden Bell Challenge for Soon-to-Be Fathers, which will be held on July 13, 2019 in the Multipurpose Hall on the 8th floor of City Hall. The World Population Day was established by the Governing...   Read more

The third Seoul Youth Job&Work Experience Center is set to be launched by Seoul City in Hagye-dong, Nowon-gu. It has facilities to support adolescents in experiencing diverse jobs and to provide career education in preparation for the age of the fourth industrial revolution. Begun in November 2017, the construction was completed in April 2019, and...   Read more

Seoul received the great honor of being awarded the UN Public Service Award (UNPSA) for the Public Sanitary Pad Support Policy that took effect in 2016 for the amelioration of women’s health rights. On May 22, 2019, Seoul was awarded the 2019 UNPSA by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) for its...   Read more

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