Hwaseong-si and Asan-si provide full childcare fees for foreign children

For the first time in the country, Hwaseong City has decided to fully support foreign children's childcare and early childhood tuition.

As it is an area with a large number of foreign workers, the intention is to resolve the temporary blind spot in welfare until the acquisition of nationality and actively respond to the problem of low birth rates and labor shortage. What a great decision.

Most local governments do not support childcare fees for foreign children. Even if they applied, there were many cases in which only one of the childcare fees at daycare centers and the tuition fees for kindergarten children was supported.

In the case of Hwaseong City, foreign children were previously subsidized up to 100,000 won per person for child care at daycare centers, and there was no separate subsidy for kindergartens.

This time, the city of Hwaseong has decided to provide full support for both childcare fees at daycare centers and kindergarten fees, just like Korean children.

Eligible applicants are children between the ages of 0 and 5 attending a daycare center or kindergarten in the city and must have been registered as an alien in Hwaseong for more than 90 days.

Hwaseong Mayor Jeong Myeong-geun said, "Non-discriminatory childcare services for foreign residents will help social integration and secure a social safety net."

“We will do our best to help foreign residents settle into our society,”

Asan City supports childcare fees for foreign children

Asan City is taking the lead in creating a childcare environment that does not discriminate between locals and foreigners.

Asan City announced the first step in supporting childcare fees for foreign children in Chungcheongnam-do by starting support for childcare fees for foreign children aged 3 to 5 in January. In particular, they decided to support 100% of the childcare costs on an equal basis with domestic children.

Asan City only supports childcare fees for daycare centers, but in fact, this is a very big decision at the local government level. This is because there are far more local governments that do not support childcare and early childhood tuition at all.

Therefore, foreign children attending kindergarten in Asan City must move to a daycare center in order to receive childcare subsidies.

Foreign children aged between 3 and 5 are eligible for Asan City's foreign child care fee support, and those born between 2017 and 2019 are subject to the child care fee in 2023. Illegal immigrants are excluded, and can receive support from the month following the time when their guardians and children have lived in Asan for more than 90 days.

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