President's mention of fairness and preferential treatment for multicultural families... Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism "Understand the status of support"

“Comprehensive investigation into not only preferential projects but also disadvantages and discrimination.”

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Lim Soon-hyeon = When President Lee Jae-myung mentioned the issue of equity in the policy of preferential treatment for multicultural families, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism began to investigate the actual situation related to cultural policy.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced in a media briefing on the 3rd, "As the ministry in charge of cultural diversity, we are assessing the status of local cultural foundations in order to check the overall status of support for multicultural families."

He then explained, “We are comprehensively identifying not only support projects and preferential programs for multicultural families, but also matters that are disadvantageous to multicultural families and matters that need to be developed to eliminate discrimination.”

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said that if anything that needs improvement is found as a result of the status survey, it plans to find a reasonable improvement plan in cooperation with related organizations such as local governments and local cultural foundations.

Previously, on the 28th of last month, President Lee Jae-myung said through social networking service (SNS), "I will discuss in depth, including consultation with local governments and revision of the enforcement ordinance, whether there is a great need to give preferential treatment to multicultural families beyond avoiding harm, and whether the preferential treatment system is necessary to abolish."