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Dongdaemun center plays major role in supporting multicultural families
Posted : 2021-07-06 08:58
Updated : 2021-07-06 15:41
Han Mi-young, second row center, executive director of the Dongdaemun Healthy Family and Multicultural Family Support Center, poses with employees and members of the center at the Government Complex Gwacheon in Gyeonggi Province, after receiving the Prime Minister s Commendation award, May 20. Courtesy of the Dongdaemun Healthy Family and Multicultural Family Support Center
By Bahk Eun-ji
The Dongdaemun Healthy Family and Multicultural Family Support Center in Seoul has been providing various support programs for multicultural families since 2006. When it was opened in 2005, there were only four employees, including me, Han Mi-young, executive director of the center, told The Korea Times. The center was originally established to support marriage migrant women who had difficulties settling in here, and it gradually began to cover the other needs of