Newsnomics AJAY ANGELINA reporter | The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) is recruiting forty volun-
teers who will assist foreign residents living in Seoul to identify and resolve the inconveniences and issues that foreign residents experience during their stay in South Korea from the duration of February 27~ March 9,
2023.
Seoul is recruiting forty volunteers who can speak either Korean or English, including naturalized citizens who have lived in Seoul for at least one year. The city will compensate the volunteers with a small amount of
activity expenses. The city will proceed with a document screening of email submissions, and then announce
the finalists by notifying them individually by Mar14,2023.
The program will run for ten months from March to December with the plans to discover various cases of
domestic and international practices to benchmark different functions and collect as much feedback as
possible.
Seoul has been operating this volunteer program since 2012 as part of its civic engagement policy to improve the lives of foreign residents. The volunteers take an active role in providing suggestions about inconveniences in every aspect of their daily lives from the perspective of foreign residents, such as those related to multi-
cultural family affairs as well as judicial impartiality and municipal policies.
Last year, forty foreign residents from twenty-five countries participated in the program, submitted a total of
237 cases of feedback.
For more information on the recruitment of volunteers, visit the official SMG website (seoul.go.kr) or portal
(mcfamily.or.kr), or contact the SMG Family & Multiculturalism Division (+82-2-2133-8705).
