By Kim Se-jeong
Staff Reporter
Children born to Korean-Indonesian parents in Korea will spend this weekend in Seoul, learning cultural tolerance.
The Korea-Indonesia Friendship Association and the Korea Bang Jung-whan Foundation invited 80 multicultural family children to the Seoul Youth Hostel at Namsan from Oct. 4-5. The event was supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Indonesian Embassy in Seoul and the Korea Foundation, and sponsored by Korean Air and Kookmin Bank.
Participating children will learn cultural elements of both Indonesia and Korea, making traditional dishes, trying out outfits, singing songs, dancing and doing traditional arts and crafts.
Oh Myung-rok, president of the foundation, said the camp is expected to help children learn to accept cultural differences.
The foundation also organized a similar program on Children's Day in May, he said. It plans to extend it to children of other ethnicities.
The number of ethnic Indonesians in Korea is increasing along with other Asians such as Chinese, Vietnamese, Mongolians and the Filipinos. The majority enter Korea via working permits or through marriage, meaning children at schools with multicultural backgrounds are becoming more commonplace.
For more information about the camp, call the foundation at 02) 3210-0671.