Incheon Comprehensive Support Center for Foreigners, expanded to all floors on the 8th floor by March.

From January to March of next year, the Incheon Foreigners Comprehensive Support Center will be expanded and relocated from a part of the 3rd floor of the existing building to the entire 8th floor. A total of 119 million won is invested in this project.

This expansion was selected in the ‘2021 Foreign Residents Residential Infrastructure Construction Project Competition’ by the Ministry of Public Administration and Security in September.

Currently, the Foreigner Support Center (3rd floor, 40, Art-ro 192beon-gil, Namdong-gu) is operating only telephone counseling and non-face-to-face online Korean language classes in accordance with the COVID-19 social distancing policy. It is expected to be transformed into a space that will help settle in.

Meanwhile, Incheon Metropolitan City will promote the outsourcing of services to the private sector from 2022 to guarantee the expertise of the Incheon Comprehensive Support Center for Foreigners and to enhance the convenience of users.

Incheon Metropolitan City announced that it will openly recruit the operation trustees of the Incheon Comprehensive Support Center for Foreigners (hereinafter referred to as the Foreigner Support Center) by December 24th.

After the dissolution of the Incheon International Foundation, the city of Incheon, which has been operating the foreigner support center directly since 2016, plans to actively promote ‘Creating Incheon a foreigner-friendly city of harmony and coexistence’ through this contest.

Through consigned operation of specialized agencies, the plan is to △secure professional counselors for foreign residents, △hold educational program events for foreign residents, and △establish networks with local organizations for foreign residents.

The consignment period is three years from January 2022 to December 2024, and only non-profit corporations and private organizations with major offices in Incheon can apply for the public offering.

Applications can be submitted by visiting the Family Multicultural Division of Incheon City Hall for two days from December 23rd, 10am to 24th, 18:00.

Reporter Song Hasung