The Enable Kids Project is pleased to share photos from a successful exchange visit in Seoul from May 15 to 18, 2016. Many thanks to Dr. Angela Kim for making all the arrangements of the Seoul program and thanks to all partners in Korea for the warm welcome and their cooperation in making the exchange visit a great learning experience.

On May 16 and 17, the project team visited the offices of the Suwon Multicultural Family Support Center and the Danuri Helpline for Women Migrants and Multicultural Families, and met with the heads and staff of each organization for briefings on their programs and services. Also on May 17, the team presented preliminary findings of the mapping of policies and programs in the three countries at a symposium in Dongguk University, which was attended by faculty and graduate students of the Department of International and Multicultural Studies. The team is grateful to Dr. Eun-Sook Seo, professor at the department and also Director of the Institute for Multicultural Integration for co-organizing this event. During the symposium, graduate students of the department also presented their research findings about multicultural children in Korea.

As a final activity, team members and researchers of the IOM Migration Research and Training Centre (IOM-MRTC) had a research exchange on May 18. The forum, titled “Do Migration and Integration Policies Consider Children? A Mapping of Initiatives in South Korea, Japan and the Philippines,” provided a venue for the project team to share findings from the three countries and for IOM-MRTC researchers to share their research on various aspects concerning children of migrant and multicultural families in Korea. The exchange was followed by insightful discussions. Special thanks to Dr. Seori Choi for organizing the forum.

We will be uploading these photos at the Enable Kids Project website (enablekidsproject.wordpress.com) soon, along with additional content, including specific details about each activity and updated profiles of programs and services.