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The
city of Busan and the Busan Foundation for International Relations announced
that they would be recruiting Life in Busan Interpreter Support Group to
support the interpretation service of Life in Busan, an essential mobile app
for foreign residents living in Busan, by March 6th.
The
‘Life in Busan Interpreter Support Group’ is open to all Busan citizens who are
fluent in foreign languages and foreign residents living in Busan who are
fluent in Korean, and a total of 200 people will be selected.
The
selection languages are English, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Indonesian,
Russian, Uzbekistan, Mongolian, Burmese, Cambodian, Thai, Filipino, and a total
of 12 languages.
The
selected interpreter support team will use their smartphone to provide phone
interpretation and chat consultations that come in through the ‘Life in Busan
Mobile App’ in their daily life, and will help foreign residents who are in the
blind spot of language.
The
interpretation service is operated from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., and the
interpreter support team can provide the service for any time desired.
The
interpreter support group is given a certain mobile gift certificate according
to the number of activities, and is given various benefits such as free
training, volunteer service and activity confirmation, and international event
interpretation opportunities.
Applications
for participation can be made online through the notice on the Nurijip website
of the Busan Foundation for International Affairs until March 6th. After that,
the final selection result will be announced on March 24 after a three-day
video screening from March 16 to March 18. The selected interpreter support
group will have a launching ceremony on March 31, and will begin full-scale
activities from April.
Jeon
Hye-sook, director of the Gender Equality and Family Bureau, said, “I hope that
the language barriers of about 73,000 foreign residents living in Busan will be
partially resolved through the ‘Life in Busan interpretation service’.”
Reporter
Song Hasung
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