The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) is recruiting forty volunteers who will assist foreign residents living in Seoul from Mon, Feb. 27 until Thu, Mar. 9 to identify and resolve the inconveniences and issues that foreign residents experience.

The city has been operating this volunteer program since 2012 as part of its civic engagement policy to improve the lives of foreign residents living in Seoul. 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 multicultural family affairs as well as judicial impartiality and municipal policies.

Last year, forty foreign residents from twenty-five countries participated in the program, submitting a total of 237 cases of feedback. This year, the city is once again recruiting forty volunteers who can speak either Korean or English, including naturalized citizens who have lived in Seoul for at least one year.

For the selection process, the city will proceed with a document screening of email submissions, and then announce the finalists by notifying them individually by Tue, Mar. 14. The program will run for ten months from March to December, and the city will compensate the volunteers with a small amount of activity expenses.

Currently at the recruitment stage, the city plans to discover various cases of domestic and international practices to benchmark different functions and collect as much feedback as possible.

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).