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Ministry seeks bilingual immigrants
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2900431

January 31, 2009
The government is seeking 60 immigrants to work as interpreters.

The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Family Affairs said yesterday that it is hiring 60 immigrants to provide interpretation and translation services to new immigrants.

Eligible applicants are those having high school or higher degrees and who have been in Korea for over two years and can translate their mother tongue into Korean.

Those hired will undergo training at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies before they begin working full time at multicultural family assistance centers or offering translation services at hospitals, schools and administrative offices.

They will be paid 950,000 won ($686) a month. The application period has already begun and ends on Feb. 12.

Along with interpreters, the ministry is also hiring 10 professionals who have degrees in education, teaching Korean language as a second language and linguistic development.

Successful applicants will be trained at Sogang University and assigned to work full time at multicultural family assistance centers to help children from multicultural families learn Korean.

They will receive 1.7 million won a month.

For more information, visit the Health Ministry�s Web site (www.mw.go.kr).


By Limb Jae-un Staff Reporter [[email protected]]

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There will be a flood of applicants. Think of the visa attractions for people in DDD jobs with three year limits. They can continue with a govt. sponsored work visa.
Most of the ones I meet put westerners to shame in terms of using the local language. They do well at learning the local environment.

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