○ Gyeonggi Province provides school admission guidance information to registered foreign children aged 6 based on information provided by the Ministry of Justice
○ School admission guidance is not just an administrative procedure but also ensures equal opportunities and rights as local residents

Gyeonggi Province is providing elementary school admission guidance information for the 2025 school year to 2,037 registered foreign children aged 6 residing in 21 cities and counties of the province.

Foreign children are not subject to compulsory education and are not registered as residents, making it difficult for local governments to provide school admission guidance. As a result, foreign parents are often unaware of how to enroll their children and miss the enrollment period.

The province planned the provision of this school admission guidance to address difficulties faced by elementary schools in areas with high concentrations of foreign children, where the enrollment status of those children is often unknown and confusing, and to address the problem of foreign children being left without school admission guidance.

As of last November, there were 3,407 children aged 6 residing in Gyeonggi Province who were eligible for elementary school admission. Among them, 2,037 foreign children in 21 cities and counties are the target of the school admission guidance information, excluding 10 cities and counties including Gimpo City, which proactively provided guidance, and Gwacheon City, which has no resident foreign children of the targeted age.

As the Ministry of Justice provided personal information on foreign children, Gyeonggi Province held a school admission guidance explanatory meeting on Jan. 8, and subsequently sent written elementary school admission guidance letters, working together with 21 cities and counties.

In the future, the province plans to expand school admission guidance activities for foreign children to all of its 31 cities and counties, including those that did not participate this time.

Gyeonggi Province’s Immigration Society Policy Division Director Heo Yeong-gil stated, “School admission guidance is not just an administrative procedure, but an important policy that guarantees basic rights, giving foreign children and their families equal opportunities as local residents… Gyeonggi Province will take the lead for a Korea in which we grow together in diversity as we enter the era of an immigrant society.”