Good Neighbors Leads Efforts to Build Healthy Multicultural Families

‘Cooking the Heart! Cooking Happiness! Cooking a Happy Heart’ in Progress

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Gukyeop] Good Neighbors Jeonnam Central Branch (Branch Manager Yu Giyong) announced on the 29th that it held the ‘Building Healthy Multicultural Families in the Local Community - Happy Mind Cooking (One-day Cooking Class)’ at the Jeonnam Central Branch Education Room.

The ‘Mind Cook! Happy Cook! Happy Mind Cooking’ program is a project aimed at reducing parenting stress for women in multicultural families, enhancing community adaptation through self-help groups, and strengthening the capabilities of multicultural families based on a strengths perspective to promote healthy community adaptation.

Among them, the Happy Mind Cooking (One-day Cooking Class) is a program that helps women from multicultural families who participated in ‘Mind Cook! Happy Cook!’ to experience a sense of accomplishment as members of the local community by performing the role of the instructor in the one-day cooking class.

As of 2018, the total number of births was 327,000, and although the number of multicultural births decreased, the proportion of multicultural births increased by 0.3% from the previous year to 5.5%.

In particular, the proportion of multicultural births by region was highest in Jeonbuk (7.7%), Jeju (7.4%), and Jeonnam (6.9%). The problem is that the number of divorces in multicultural marriages accounted for 9.4% of total divorces.

Furthermore, about 36.1% of divorced multicultural couples were reported to have minor children. The proportion of multicultural divorces by region was highest in Jeju (18.1%), Gwangju (17.8%), and Jeonnam (11.1%), with Jeonnam showing a high proportion nationwide.

Yu Giyong, branch manager of Good Neighbors Jeonnam Central Branch, said, “Through this project, we hope that multicultural women will have opportunities to increase their community adaptation and experience a sense of accomplishment as members of society,” and added, “Good Neighbors Jeonnam Central Branch will strive to build healthy multicultural families in the local community.”

A participant in the one-day cooking class said, “It seems happier as the family cooperates and respects each other during the process of making food together,” and added, “I hope to have time to make food from various countries again next time.”