page_title: Multicultural family in South Korea
section_title: Economic aspect
hierarchical_section_title: Multicultural family in South Korea / Social, economic and cultural aspects / Economic aspect
caption_attribution_description: English: Work status of children of multicultural family
context_page_description: A multicultural family in South Korea is a family that made up of people without a background in Korean culture. As the number of multicultural families increased in Korean society, the number of children in multicultural families also increased. New policies have been created to respond to the problems faced by children of multicultural families.
context_section_description: Present situation : The percentage of employment of children of multicultural family over 15 years old is 27.1% in 2015. It means only 10,329 children find a job among total 38,052 children. The percentage of employment of children who both parents are foreigner is 39.6%. And it is higher than children who are grown by Korean mother and foreign father (25.3%), children who are grown by foreign mother and Korean father (24.7%).  Statistical data about employment status of children of multicultural family shows that regular employee is 21%, temporary employee is 42.2%, day-to-day worker is 35.4%, independent businessman who takes employee is 0%, independent businessman who do not takes employee is 0.8%, unpaid family employee is 0.6% of the total. This shows that children of multicultural family have kind of job like temporary employee and day-to-day worker rather than job like permanent employee, stable job. According to statistical data, about the rate of day-to-day worker, children who both parents are foreigner is 16.1%, children who are grown by Korean mother and foreign father is 36.6%, and children who are grown by foreign mother and Korean father is 39.7%. It means that children who are grown by foreign parents can find more stable job and find job easily than other case.
  supporting policy : Rainbow teenager center, one of support center for children of multicultural family, manages program for training children of multicultural family about job ‘Take tomorrow, Take my job(내-일을 잡(job)아라)’. ‘Take tomorrow, Take my job’ means that prepare future through find own job. It is a program that helps children of multicultural family (Immigrant youth, multicultural teenager, children of North Korean refugee family) to go into the world more stably through support job training and finding a job. Cost for education and training is free. Targets for support are 16~24 years’ old Immigrant youth, multicultural teenager, children of North Korean refugee family who want to have professional certificate.
caption: Work status of children of multicultural family
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