이제는 다문화 시대]“결혼이주여성의 든든한 선생님 될게요

◇하이원과 함께하는 다문화강사 폐광권 소양교육 수료식이 9일 정선다문화가족지원센터에서 열려 31명의 수료생을 배출했다.

2014년 하이원과 함께하는 다문화강사 폐광권 소양교육이 지난달 29일부터 2주일 동안 총 6회에 걸친 일정을 모두 끝내고 31명의 수료생을 배출했다. 강원일보 사회복지법인 함께사는 강원세상과 하이원리조트, 도가 공동주최하고 (사)강원한국학연구원이 주관하는 이번 소양교육에는 폐광권역인 영월과 정선, 삼척, 태백지역에서 모두 31명의 결혼이주여성이 참여해 다문화강사로서 갖춰야 할 소양을 쌓는 계기를 마련했다. 특히 한국의 다문화 상황과 문화소통을 위한 다양한 대화법 등 다문화가정이 한국문화에 적응할 수 있도록 돕는 도우미로서의 역량을 갖추도록 했다. 또 엑셀 및 PPT 활용, 교안 작성법 등 다양한 컴퓨터 활용기법은 다문화강사의 역할을 수행하는 데 큰 도움이 될 전망이다. 스미리티(여·25·정선군 북평면·네팔)씨는 “필리핀, 베트남, 중국 등 다른 나라의 문화까지 이해하고 한국문화에 대해 더 자세히 이해하는 기회가 됐다”며 “배운 지식을 다른 다문화가정에 알릴 수 있다는 자신감도 생겼다”고 말했다. source: Kangwon Research Institute of Korean Studies(강원한국학연구원)

How India can adopt Korea model to boost manufacturing

 The Indian economy bears a striking resemblance to the South Korean economy of 1970s and a few vital steps to boost manufacturing should set the country on a high-growth path, a report by Goldman Sachs concludes.
“Over the 1970s and 80s, Korea improved its growth environment significantly, especially its micro environment, leading to a 14-fold increase in manufacturing output in 20 years,” analysts in economics research report write in the report titled ‘How India can become the next Korea’.
“If India were to emulate the Korean model and grow manufacturing at the same rate as Korea’s in the 1970s and 80s, we calculate it could add 1.4 percentage points to its GDP growth annually for the next decade.”
The Korea model was based on a single-minded focus by the government on developing export-led manufacturing, they write.
“This was encouraged by cheap land and infrastructure through industrial parks, reducing red tape and the cost of doing business, tax benefits and flexible labor laws for manufacturing firms, and cheaper power to industry than to consumers.”
India versus Korea
In the early 70s, the manufacturing sector’s share in India’s gross domestic product stood at 14 percent and stays at the around the same number even today.
While Korea’s output as a share of GDP grew from less than 10 percent then to over 30 percent today.
How do various conditions that are vital for success of manufacturing activity stack up for India today compared to the Korea of 1970s?
“We thought that there might have been initial conditions that were favorable to Korea. To our surprise, we found that the scores were fairly similar,” analysts write.
According to Goldman Sachs Growth Environment Scores, both countries are similar to each other in the different timeframes.
“India’s per capita income currently (about USD 4,000 in purchasing power parity terms) is similar to that of Korea in the early 1970s, in purchasing power parity terms,” the analysts point out.
Macroeconomic conditions including openness to trade and investment were quite similar. The micro environment was also similar, while in human capital, Korea was considerably weaker than India currently but macroeconomic stability is where India scores much lower than Korea.
“From the early 1970s, Korea made rapid gains in its growth environment scores. The biggest improvements were in the microeconomic environment, though it also made further progress on human capital and on the macroeconomic front.”
What did Korea do?
“In Korea, the push for manufacturing was driven by the government, especially in the 1960s. With a strong leadership, the government focused on removing bottlenecks and incentivizing manufacturing,” the report says.
“There was a realization that Korea was labor abundant but deficient in capital, so the focus was on labor-intensive manufacturing. There was an early recognition that export-led manufacturing could lead to rapid increases in productivity, and there could be increasing returns to scale due to a much larger export market. This government focus on export-led industrial growth as the main economic objective was critical in our view.”
In India, thus far, the single-minded focus on export-led manufacturing growth is missing.
“The agriculture and services sectors, which have been relatively lightly taxed and often the recipients of large government subsidies, have been preferred over industry,” the report says.
What should India do?
The report lays out a seven-point agenda that the Indian government should pursue to boost its manufacturing growth, similar to how Korea did in the 1970s.
1. Government focus on manufacturing as primary objective
The Korean government emphasized labor-intensive, export-led manufacturing as the key objective of economic policy starting from the 1960s in order to increase productivity and use its abundant resource, labor. The sectors that drove manufacturing growth were labor intensive – textiles, garments, wood etc.
2. Low fiscal deficit
This needs to be the starting point for greater macro stability, and to reduce crowding out of the private sector. It also provides space for government spending on infrastructure.
3. Develop effective industrial parks
If the government provided infrastructure, land were made available to industry at below market prices, there are strict conditions on usage of land for industrial purposes only, greater labor flexibility, favorable tax treatment, and single-window clearance for all permits, as Korea did in its industrial parks, then it could allow for agglomeration benefits and economies of scale.
4. Reduce cost of doing business
This involves cutting bureaucratic red tape to reduce the number of permits and administrative costs to setting up a business, construction approvals, getting electricity, and enforcing contracts. Korea significantly improved its business climate in the 1970s and 80s.
5. Flexible labor laws
Korean policy was focused on job creation and training, rather than protecting those who are employed. Activities of labor unions were restricted, and minimum wage legislation not adopted till 1988.
6. Tax policy to encourage industry
Korea provided tax benefits to encourage capital accumulation; incentives were provided to exporters and foreign direct investment, and exemptions granted to interest income on deposits and government bonds. Real estate taxation was strengthened to discourage real estate speculation by manufacturing companies.
7. Subsidize power for industry

Korea made power available to industry at lower rates compared to consumers. In India, the opposite is currently the case.

source:moneycontrol.com

유학생 정책개발·도정홍보 추진

▲ 외국인 유학생 강원도 명예홍보대사 위촉식이 13일 도청에서 이주익 국제협력실장과 강원대 중국유학생회의 후펑을 비롯한 유학생 11명이 참석한 가운데 열렸다. 이재용

강원도는 외국인 대학생 11명을 ‘강원도 명예홍보대사’로 위촉했다고 13일 밝혔다.

외국인 대학생 명예 홍보대사 위촉은 글로벌 인재양성을 위한 대학간 교류 확대로 외국인 유학생 수가 점차 증가함에 따라 이들에 대한 정책개발 및 도정홍보 필요성이 높아지면서 실시하게 됐다.

이번에 강원도 명예 홍보대사로 위촉된 유학생들은 강원대 중국유학생회의 후펑을 비롯한 유학생회 11명이다.

학교별로는 강원대 8명, 한림대 3명이며 국가별로는 중국 5명, 몽골 2명, 베트남·인도·네팔·미국 각각 1명씩이다.

이들 유학생들은 강원도정에 반영 될 수 있는 정책과 유학생활에서 느끼는 불편한 사항 등을 도와 함께 해결해 나갈 방침이다.

도는 앞으로 외국인 대학생 홍보대사를 학교별·나라별로 확대해 나갈 계획이다.

안은복

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Indian Prime Minister condoles loss of young lives in Korean ferry disaster

Prime Minister of India Dr. Manmohan Singh has expressed deep shock and pain at the ferry tragedy in the Republic of Korea (Korea) on 16th April 2014, which has led to the loss of many young lives.   In his letter to the President of South Korea Madame Park Geun-hye, PM Singh conveyed the solemn and heartfelt condolences, of the Government and the people of India, to the bereaved families and expressed full support for the Korean Government’s rescue efforts.  India stood with the people of Korea in their hour of great national tragedy, he said, praying that those who had lost their dear ones, had the strength to bear their loss. Seoul 22 April 2014 Source: Embassy of India, Seoul

Scholarships for Koreans to study Hindi in India

The Kendriya Hindi Sansthan, Agra under the Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India has announced Scholarships for the academic year 2014-15 to candidates from the Republic of Korea for the study of Hindi at its institute located at Agra (India) from 1st August 2014 - 30th April 2015.
The applications from interested students who have studied Hindi for at least one year and aged between 21-35 years may please be forwarded to Indian Cultural Centre, Seoul by 28th April 2014.


For further information, please contact-

Tel: (02) 794257 Ext.100
Fax: 02)795-4258
E-mail: iccseoul@gmail.com

India eases visa rule for Korean tourists

Indian Ambassador to Korea Vishnu Prakash, right, listens to Lee Ock-soon, professor of Yonsei University, as Lee answered reporters’s questions during a news conference at the embassy in Seoul, Thursday. / Korea Times

By Kang Hyun-kyung

India will implement a visa-on-arrival program for Korean tourists from Tuesday to encourage more Koreans to travel to the country, said Indian Ambassador to Korea Vishnu Prakash on Thursday.

During a press meeting at the embassy, the envoy said that it is a unilateral measure taken by the Indian government.

“At the moment this is our decision to show our gesture of goodwill to the Korean government,” he said.

The move is expected to make Koreans travel India easier as they don’t need to wait two or three days to get a tourist visa after submitting their applications to the Indian Embassy in Seoul.

India’s visa on arrival for Koreans was rare, given that visa decisions are usually reciprocal and the two sides adopt such a measure after agreeing to implement it together.

Ambassador Prakash stressed that India’s unilateral decision reflects strong Korea-India relations, calling on the Korean government to consider taking a similar measure.

Last year, 112,000 Koreans travelled to India.

Prakash expressed hope that the figure will rise once the new visa rule is implemented from Tuesday.

The Indian Embassy invited several Korean journalists to the embassy to present the activities of the newly-launched Institute of Indian Studies led by Professor Lee Ock-soon of Yonsei University.

Ambassador Prakash, Lee, Park Hyun-chae, professor of Chonnam National University Graduate School of Business based in Gwangju City, and several embassy staff joined the get together with the media.

Lee, who earned her doctoral degree in Indian history from an Indian university, said that she and the Indian Embassy decided to organize a press meeting as there are lots of misconceptions about India due to “misleading” media reports.

She argued that the media portrayed India as a dangerous country to travel after a couple of gang rape incidents occurred last year.

“The way the media handles such cases is misleading because they focused on sexual attack cases in India while staying mum on other positive images of the country,” Lee, president of the Institute of Indian Studies based in Seoul, said.

source:koreatimes

Samsung case: Korea could invoke Bipa for arbitration

South Korea is considering invoking provisions under the bilateral investment promotion and protection agreement (Bipa) against India for the hit on Samsung Electronics' investments, following a Supreme Court order asking its chairman, Lee Kun-hee, to appear within six weeks before a Ghaziabad trial court in a pending payment case.

This comes even as Commerce & Industry Minister Anand Sharma expressed apprehension the apex court's decision might adversely affect India's investment climate.

Sources told Business Standard the Korean embassy here had taken up the matter with the foreign ministry of that country. Currently, Korean ambassador Lee Joon-Gye is in his home country.

Under the India-South Korea Bipa, a party can drag the other to international arbitration if its investments are threatened.

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court had directed Lee Kun-hee to appear before a Ghaziabad court in a $1.4-million cheating case filed against him.

The Centre believes it is Samsung India that is "to be blamed, as it did not foresee it coming and mishandled the case", says a senior official, adding the apex court order had given an option through which an exemption could be sought from Lee's personal appearance.

The government is verifying the credentials of JCE Consultancy, complainant in the case. Initial investigations have revealed the company isn't registered with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs and doesn't have its sales tax number registered.

"The case has zero merit. The government is fully behind them. JCE Consultancy is a fraud company and is tactfully misusing the Indian judicial system," said an official directly handing the case on behalf of the Indian government.

source:business standard