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It was found that 7 out of 10 foreigners residing in Gyeonggi-do believe that there is a risk of being discriminated against compared to Koreans in the event of a natural or social disaster.
Last year, the Gyeonggi Human Rights Support Center for Foreigners conducted a ‘2022 fact-finding survey to establish a disaster safety system for foreign residents in Gyeonggi-do’ targeting 430 foreign residents from 27 countries, including China, Russia, and Vietnam.
As a result, 44.9% of the foreign residents who participated in the survey thought that foreigners living in Gyeonggi-do were at greater risk of being hit by a disaster than Koreans.
The reason is that the Korean government is passive about the safety of foreigners (30.6%), the Korean government's disaster safety information is not translated into multiple languages (26.9%), and foreigners do not have much freedom to choose a safe environment (24.9%). %), and foreigners were isolated from Korean society (10.9%).
As for the biggest difficulties foreigners may experience in the process of recovering from a disaster (multiple responses), discriminatory treatment with Koreans overwhelmingly ranked first with 72.4%, unequal compensation for damages (10.7%), and the Korean government's indifference. Or, ignoring (5.6%), criticizing the country or region of origin (4.3%), and shifting responsibility to foreigners (2.6%) were the answers.
Foreign residents most often cited government agencies (47.7%), such as 112 or 119, as the first place to ask for help when experiencing a disaster, followed by private organizations such as the Foreign Residents Support Center (17.9%), and family members (12.6%). 2.1% of the respondents said that there was no one.
Foreign residents cited the inconvenience of language communication (50%) and the lack of agency information (17.2%) as the biggest difficulties when asking for help from administrative agencies in a disaster or dangerous situation. As for the most necessary information to respond to a disaster situation, institutional and group information (35.3%) was mentioned the most.
Regarding how well the Gyeonggi Provincial Office and the current city hall are doing disaster prevention and recovery, 44.9% of the respondents answered that it was average, followed by the response of doing well (41.9%) and very well (10.2%), followed by the responses of Gyeonggi-do and the city's disaster response, and overall, the disaster response capacity of Gyeonggi-do and the city was evaluated positively.
In addition, the Gyeonggi Human Rights Center for Foreigners also conducted an interview and found out that ▲foreign residents mainly live in isolated spaces such as dormitories ▲work in dangerous working environments compared to Koreans ▲it is difficult to respond immediately in the event of a disaster due to communication problems and have confirmed that foreign residents can face greater difficulties in a disaster situation
This survey warned Koreans of multiculturalism and diversity, as many foreign residents thought that if a disaster occurred in Korea, they would discriminate against foreign residents.
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