Change Up Campus to Provide Free English Education for Underprivileged Groups, serving 18,000 Residents

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The Change Up Campus of the Gyeonggi-do Provincial Institute for Lifelong Learning provides a variety of English learning programs free of charge to residents in need of social care in Gyeonggi Province.

Among the main programs are: 1) the Vacation Intensive English Course to improve practical English language skills in a learning environment similar to that of overseas language training; 2) the English Camp for Military Personnel who otherwise lack access to educational opportunities; and 3) the Multicultural Family Camp to help multicultural families adapt to Korean society.

The Vacation Intensive English Course is for elementary school students in the 3rd through to 6th grades from low-income families in the province, and is offered for up to 200 participants. It is an immersive 2-week program held in the form of a camp in a safer educational environment than that of overseas training.

The English Camp for Military Personnel will be provided to a total of 400 army, navy, and air force service members in the province. Held for five days, the camp will offer English learning experiences to military personnel who lack access to educational opportunities.

The Multicultural Family Camp is geared to cultivate the social adaptability of multicultural families in the province, and is recruiting up to 200 participants.

The Change Up Campus also runs the Daily Hands-on Program, which allows a wide range of residents to easily participate in learning activities, and the Moving English Musical Theater program through which faculty members visit organizations that have difficulty visiting the Change Up Campus and offer performances fusing art and English.

This program is for organizations such as institutions and schools in Gyeonggi Province; individuals cannot apply. For further information, please contact the Gyeonggi-do Provincial Institute for Lifelong Learning’s English Language Division (031-956-2113), or visit www.gchangeupcampus.or.kr.

Gyeonggi Province Recruiting Participants for National Multicultural Speaking Contest

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Gyeonggi Province is recruiting participants for the May 19 National Multicultural Speaking Contest from March 2 to April 2.

This contest was organized to celebrate Together Day (May 20) and Multicultural Week in order to promote happy homes through family understanding and communication while fostering talented individuals for the global stage.

The event will be divided into a Korean Speaking Contest for marriage immigrants and a Bilingual Speaking Contest for the children of both foreign residents and multicultural households.

Participation is limited to marriage immigrants who entered the country after January 1st, 2013, and foreign resident school children attending elementary to high school who were born between 2000 and 2012. Participants may freely choose speech topics; Korean Speaking Contest participants have 150 seconds to speak and Bilingual Speaking Contest participants have 90 seconds each for both Korean and the native tongue of their non-Korean parent.

The preliminary round takes place on April 18 at the Gyeonggi Provincial Government Complex through the evaluation of submitted videos with the finalists announced on April 27.

Only the top 20 contestants (10 in each category) qualify for the finals with a KRW 1 million prize for 1st place, KRW 700,000 each for two 2nd place winners, KRW 500,000 each for two 3rd place winners and KRW 300,000 each for five participation award winners along with an award certificate.

For more information on how to apply, please refer to the notice board on the Gyeonggi Province website: www.gg.go.kr.

How to participate in the 9th National Multicultural Speaking Contest

1. Overview
❍ Category: 1) Korean Speaking Contest, 2) Bilingual Speaking Contest
❍ Date: May 19, 2018 (Saturday) 13:00-16:00 (Announcement of finalists on April 27, 2018)
❍ Venue: TBD
– Gyeonggi Province website (www.gg.go.kr) – Go to “Menu” on the upper right side → “News” → “Notice”)
❍ Host / organizer: Gyeonggi Province

2. Application submission

❍ Period: March 2 (Friday) to April 2 (Monday) by 18:00, 2018
❍ How to submit: Visit directly or submit via e-mail or postal mail (※ Valid with a postmark on or before April 3)
❍ Address and inquiries
– Address: (Postal code: 16444)
Multicultural Families Division (8F, Annex 2), Gyeonggi Provincial Government, 1, Hyowon-ro, Paldal-gu, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do
– Email: jeweleye@gg.go.kr, loan33082@gg.go.kr
– Inquiries: 031-8008-4433, 031-8008-3352

No More Career Breaks! Gyeonggi Province to Offer IT Vocational Training for Women

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The Gyeonggido Job Foundation offers “2018 IT Vocational Training for Women” to support the re-employment of women on career breaks in the province and will recruit 140 trainees for the first half of the year.

The application deadline is March 20, and anyone who is 15 years of age or older and resides in Gyeonggi Province can apply.

This course provides IT-related vocational training is composed of a total of seven subjects. The classes begin on March 26 and each class will last for from 3 to 6 hours per day between 1 to 4 months.

The subjects include: Web & App Design Specialist, Back & Front Web Development, Shopping Mall Operation (Startup Course), ERP & Computer Accounting, Online Marketing Specialist, Online Shopping Mall Master, and SW Instructor (for advanced learners).

The Gyeonggido Job Foundation plans to provide employment support services such as one-on-one individualized employment counseling and an IT company job matching service along with IT vocational training.

In addition, it will operate a daycare at the Women’s Resources Development Headquarters for trainees with young children so that they can participate in the training without worrying about childcare.

Applications can be submitted via the Kkumnalgae website (http://www.dream.go.kr), Gyeonggi Province’s employment support website for women.

Trainees are selected through a written test and interview on the basis of their scores.

For more information, visit the Kkumnalgae website or contact the Gyeonggido Job Foundation’s Women’s Reemployment Team 1 (031-270-9771).


Recruitment of Trainees: 2018 IT Vocational Training for Women

Overview
❍ Period: March-July, 2018
❍ Targets: Unemployed women aged 15 or over residing in Gyeonggi Province
❍ Venue: Gyeonggido Job Foundation’s Women’s Resources Development Headquarters (Yongin)
❍ Classes/ No. of Trainees: 7 classes and 20 trainees per class / a total of 140 trainees

Recruitment and Trainee Selection
❍ Application deadline: Tuesday, March 20
❍ How to apply: Register for membership with the Kkumnalgae website (www.dream.go.kr) → Vocational education → Offline course → Apply
❍ Selection: On the basis of applicant scores [Interview + written test]

※ Priority given to: beneficiaries of national basic livelihood, single parents, registered disabled residents, people of national merit and their family members, multicultural family members and marriage immigrants, North Korean defectors (up to 10 % of the applicants for each class)

Gyeonggi Province to Provide Creator Training to Multicultural Residents and Koryoin

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Gyeonggi Province is recruiting participants for the ‘Gyeonggi Dream Creators’ program for multicultural families and Koryoin (Korean Russians) until this coming February 27.

The Gyeonggi Dream Creator project was launched this year to train multicultural residents and Koryoin in the province to be Dream Creators by upgrading their video content development skills. “Gyeonggi Dream” represents the goal of the province to enable residents to “fulfill their dreams” and to “share the dream of Gyeonggi Province”.

Designed for naturalized Korean citizens, married immigrants, children of multicultural families, and Koryoin residing in Gyeonggi Province, the program will select 40 applicants through document screening and interviews, followed by basic training after which the final 20 trainees will be chosen as Gyeonggi Dream Creators through a video content creation contest.

The newly selected Gyeonggi Dream Creators will create a video related to Gyeonggi Province’s policies and multicultural life, and will receive KRW 400,000 each month for activity expenses.

The province will offer the participants intensive training by experts and regular mentoring from professional content creators to enhance their capacity, and will hold a video content festival twice a year for them to select outstanding works and present various awards.

Applications can be submitted through February 27: Hwikstudy (http://www.hwikstudy.com.)
For details, contact 070-8785-4502.

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Use Three Private Expressways for Free During Lunar New Year Holidays

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Expressways operated by Gyeonggi Province can be used for free during the Lunar New Year holidays of 2018, the Year of the Golden Dog.

On January 30, Gyeonggi Province announced that it would provide toll-free passage on three expressways (Seosuwon-Uiwang Expressway, 3rd Gyeongin Expressway, Ilsandaegyo Bridge) operated by the province for the three days of the Lunar New Year holidays, February 15 through 17.

This measure was taken to help citizens use expressways more safely and conveniently in line with the nationwide holiday expressway toll exemption policy. The government amended the Enforcement Decree of the Toll Road Act in September last year to suspend tolls for expressways from the eve of Lunar New Year and Chuseok through to the following day.

The expressway tolls that are exempted during the Lunar New Year holidays are KRW 800 for the Seosuwon-Uiwang Expressway, KRW 1,200 for Ilsandaegyo Bridge, and KRW 2,200 for the 3rd Gyeongin Expressway. The toll-free period runs 72 hours from midnight February 14 to midnight February 17.

Gyeonggi Province expects that a total of approximately 830,000 vehicles will use the three expressways during this period (350,000 vehicles on the Seosuwon-Uiwang Expressway, 140,000 on Ilsandaegyo Bridge, and 340,000 on the 3rd Gyeongin Expressway). The total value of the suspended tolls is projected to amount to KRW 870 million, including KRW 300 million from the Seosuwon-Uiwang Expressway, KRW 170 million from Ilsandaegyo Bridge, and KRW 400 million from the 3rd Gyeongin Expressway.

Gyeonggi Province exempted tolls for these three expressways on two supplementary holidays and during last year’s Lunar New Year holidays. A total of 374,000 vehicles were exempted from tolls amounting to KRW 389 million on August 14, a supplementary holiday for the National Liberation Day of Korea in 2015, and 359,000 vehicles used the expressways without paying tolls totaling KRW 362 million during the Children’s Day supplementary holiday on May 6, 2016. In 2017, 1,010,000 vehicles were exempted from KRW 990 million in tolls during the Lunar New Year holidays.

Gyeonggi Cheonnyeonche Font Wins iF Design Award 2018: First Case Among Fonts Developed by Municipalities

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The font developed by Gyeonggi Province, the Gyeonggi Cheonnyeonche, won an award at Germany’s iF Design Award 2018, deemed the most prestigious of the world’s top three design awards, in the category of Communication (typography).

This represents a first among fonts developed by Korean municipalities although fonts designed by Korean companies including Hyundai Motor Company and KT have received this award in the past.

The iF International Forum Design is based in Hannover, Germany, and is the world’s oldest independent design body. It selects and presents iF Design Awards to outstanding design works each year.
With a history of 65 years, the iF Design Awards are regarded as the most reputable and authoritative of their kind. The iF logo is a worldwide symbol that assures excellent design.
This year, more than 6,400 entries from 54 countries competed for the awards.

The Gyeonggi Cheonnyeonche was well received by the 63 judges composed of experts from all around the world, expressing the elements of design that effectively reflect the characteristics of the region and the Korean people as well as universality.

The Gyeonggi Cheonnyeonche was designed with the concept of connection that implies the mediating characteristics of Gyeonggi Province that can be found in its 1000-year history since the naming of “Gyeonggi,” the geographical characteristics linking the east and the west of the Korean peninsula, and the open-mindedness and generosity of Gyeonggi residents. The concept of connection was reflected in the design elements such as the flexible connection of consonants and vowels and the end rise of the first and the final consonants.

An official of Gyeonggi Province said, “The Gyeonggi Cheonnyeonche has been recognized for its globally excellent design with this iF award. I hope that this will help promote the 1000-year history and values of Gyeonggi Province around the world and raise the pride of Gyeonggi residents in their culture.”

The Gyeonggi Cheonnyeonche can be downloaded free of charge from the Gyeonggi Provincial Government website without copyright restrictions, and its usage is expanding nationwide as it is also provided by Hancom Office under a contract between Gyeonggi Province and Hancom.

Selecting Business People to Lead the Creator Project for Multicultural Families and Chinese-Koreans

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On December 28, Gyeonggi announced that it seeks business people who can participate in a new project, the “2018 Creator Project for Immigrants” with applications due by January 10.
The number of immigrants continues to increase, and online contents are rapidly becoming more significant. Accordingly, it has been deemed useful for immigrants to acquire professional media technology skills. To this end, those who can offer instruction and leadership in such skills are sought.

Twenty creators will be selected from among Gyeonggi’s immigrant community (naturalized residents, Korean-Chinese, marriage immigrants, etc.) and receive mentorship in the creation of PR clips regarding the public policies, tourist spots, and SME products of Gyeonggi Province. Every month, these clips will be reviewed and exemplary clips rewarded.

The 2018 consignment period is for a one-year period.

For those interested, a registration form is available from the Gyeonggi Province website (gg.go.kr) under the “Notice” section. Completed forms are to be submitted in person to the Contents Infrastructure Team (tel. 031-8008-4696).

Gyeonggi Urban Innovation Corporation, conducted a signboard hanging ceremony for “Ddabok Hope Village No.1” and commenced full scale move in

– Introduces first housing welfare model customized for Gyeonggi-do … to be leased in price of 60%~70% of market price for college student and people starting out in a career
– Gyeongpill Nahm, the governor of Gyeonggi-do, and Deukgoo Kang, the chairman of Gyeonggi-do Provincial Assembly participated…. Nos. 2, 3 and 4 will be continuously carried out

On the 29th day in last month, Gyeonggi Urban Innovation Corporation (the “Corporation”) conducted a signboard hanging ceremony, where public figures including Gyeongpill Nahm, the governor of Gyeonggi-do, and Deukgoo Kang, the chairman of Gyeonggi-do Provincial Assembly, Phillwoon Lee, the mayor of Anyang city, Geumsik Choi, the president of Corporation and Chaehoh Ihm, member of provincial assembly participated, for “Ddabok Hope Village No.1”, which has been constructed in front of Manahn Police Office located in Anyang-dong, Anyang-si,  and commenced full scale move in.  

 

“Ddabok Hope Village No.1”, as the first outcome of housing welfare model customized to Gyeonggi-do, is a kind of one-room typed rental housing which is to be supplied in a price of  60~70% of market price of surrounding neighborhood for college students and people starting out in their career.

 

“Ddabok Hope Village No.1” consists of 24 households of one-room typed and 4th floor building (12 households of 19.86㎡, 20.79㎡, respective) and is to be leased for 3.6 million won of security deposit and: 270,000 won of monthly rent for college students and; 290,000 won for people starting out in their career. TV, refrigerator, laundry machine and air conditioner are supplied and, if desired, beds may be provided.

 

In addition, convenient facilities are provided in each floor so as to be available to common use for the entire households: study room in the 2nd floor is a place for reading and studying which are equipped with various books ; restroom in the 3rd floor; and sports room in the 4th floor is equipped with treadmills and other sporting goods for exercise of muscle.

 

The reason why the rent of “Ddabok Hope Village No.1” is so cheap is because the land owned by local government (Do) can be used for 30 years free of charge. The Corporation constructed the housing building in a way of gratuitous donation, operated as a way of promoting housing welfare projects so that the rent can be determined in a price lower than construction cost.

 

Geumsik Choi, the president of Corporation, announced that “Ddabok Hope Village No.1″ is the ” first outcome of housing welfare model customized to Gyeonggi-do which is currently carried out by the Corporation” and the Corporation has a plan to continue to supply “Ddabok Love Village” for newlyweds wed and “Ddabok Health Village” for seniors and the disabled as well as Ddabok Hope Village Nos. 2, 3 and 4 . 

 

In around the end of August when summer vacation will end and all the household will move in, it is planned that Gyeonggi-do and the Corporation will hold a meeting with residents, develop and support for the programs for promotion of “Ddabok community”.

 

Gyeonggi Urban Innovation Corporation achieved first-class (Class “A”) from 2015 mana gement evaluation of local public corporations by MGAHA

Strengthening financial soundness by implementing debt reduction policy hosted by Gyeonggi-do/Appointing professional manager through personnel hearing of provincial assembly/Establishing new vision and business strategy reflecting the demand of improvement/Achieving sales of 5.1 trillion won/Implementing 56 tasks for government innovation including normalization of  welfare system

On the 28th day in last month, Gyeonggi Urban Innovation Corporation (the “Corporation”), whose president is Geumsik Choi) announced  that it has achieved to be included in the five agencies which are ranked in “A” class among 60 agencies of public corporations and  industrial complexes of municipal governments in Korea  by winning “A“ class, the first class, as a result of ‘2015 (for performance in 014) Management Evaluation of Local Public Corporation by the Ministry of Government Administration & Home Affairs, MGAHA).

 

Even in the early of 2014, it received concern from Gyeonggi-do, provincial assembly and press due to its excessive debts, the Corporation established and implemented its “Debts Reduction Plan (Apr., 2014)” under full support of Gyeonggi-do and provincial assembly, which ended up surplus achievement of  government standard goal of debt ratio (320%) by 38%  including  financial debt reduction by 750 billion won and strengthened its financial soundness. In addition, the Corporation appointed a professional manager who has been accredited through “personnel hearing” held twice and he took his office (Sep. 2014)for the first time for public corporations and established new vision and business strategies which reflect the demand of citizens of Do as pointed out in public hearings.   

 

Internally, the Corporation has conducted preliminary preference survey, improved the way of supply such as disposal by a sale en bloc, made its effort in sales promotion and debt reduction through changes in business methods such as attraction of private capitals and transition of commission for lease on deposit bases, which led to achievement of accomplishment of sales 5.1 trillion won, the largest sales volume since its foundation and debt ratio reduction. These achievements were recognized and the Corporation was selected by MGAHA as one of outstanding local public agencies in debt reduction in 2015. (Jan. 2015)

 

Moreover, the Corporation sets an example of leading innovative public corporation for other public corporations by completing 56 tasks of government innovation guidelines including 12 tasks of normalization of welfare system as required by MGAHA through smooth agreement with labor union.

 

Recently, reflecting recent changes in business environments such as changes in real estate markets and sailing of its 6th executives elected by popular vote, the Corporation established its new vision of “best public corporation creating happy urban life” through participation of all employees and external professionals along with inauguration of new president and make its efforts in innovating organizational culture through selecting 4C (Creation, Challenge, Customer-orientation and Communications), its four core values.

 

In the future, reflecting changes in urban development paradigm, the Corporation has a plan that it will shift its focus: from new town development to urban restoration’ from simple industrial complex development to development of cutting-edge, fusion and complex industrial complex; and from installment sale of newly-built houses to housing welfare projects.

 

In particular, the Corporation makes its effort in addressing present local issues through regional comprehensive development agreement with 31 cities and Guns in Gyeonggi-do based on its experience in carrying out large scale projects such as those for Gwanggyo New Town, and Godeuk International Industrial Complex and will make its more efforts in supply rental housing for low income class by developing housing welfare model customized for Gyeonggi-do through construction of happy housing by utilizing the land  publicly owned by cities and Guns.

 

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