President Lee "Correcting some problems with support for multicultural families is not discrimination."

Refutation for four days on criticism of ‘mention on abolition of preferential treatment system’… “Mechanical victimism, dogmatic attitude”

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Ko Dong-wook = President Lee Jae-myeong emphasized on the 1st, "Listening to voices that say there are problems that are difficult to understand in some of the policies to support multicultural families, and asking for corrections if there are problems cannot be a measure that excludes or discriminates against multicultural families."

On this day, President Lee said on

He continued, “The dogmatic attitude that prevents people from calling a problem a problem can actually damage the original purpose of healthy inclusion of multicultural families as equal citizens of the Republic of Korea,” and “If partial unfairness or administrative blind spots in certain areas are left unattended in the name of protecting minorities, those gaps will become easy prey for far-right incitement of hatred and extreme division of public opinion.”

He wrote, “The surest breakwater to prevent the spread of extremism and protect a healthy public sphere is not blind moral protection, but transparent and preemptive correction of unreasonable elements of the system.”

He added, “Correction based on principles and facts” on existing welfare and social policies is a foundation for expanding the horizon of welfare in Korea. “Only when there is support for empathy and trust that the welfare system is operated rationally according to common sense standards and not unfairly abused, will citizens willingly extend a hand of solidarity and bear the financial burden,” he added.

On the 28th of last month, President Lee quoted a post from the strongly conservative online community 'Efem Korea' (Femco) on