Accurately A right to get an education for

migrant children
The migrant children in Korea mean ‘at least one of parent
has stayed as registered or unregistered migrant workers in
Korea or one less than 18 years old who enters Korea due to
their parent’s remarry and they are classified as migrant work-
ers’ children and married migrants’ one. According to relevant
data, the number of migrant children is 50,000 and 50 percent
among them is estimated as a developing county’s children on
the basis of 2009 year. In particular, the number of unregistered
children is estimated to about 20,000.
The number of migrant children is increasing every year. How-
ever, the Korean government does not investigate even the
actual conditions of migrant children's are ignored from educa-
tional system. In 2003, UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
asked the Korean government to guarantee foreign children’s
right to education as Korean nationals equally. In response, the
government gave compulsory education opportunities to enter
a school from another regardless of qualification to stay after
reforming Enforcement Decree of the Elementary and Second-
ary Education Act in 2008.
However, the number of unregistered migrant children, who are
in elementary, middle and high schools, is only 148. The rea-
son why the percentage of their school attendance is low is the
unstable place of residence, financial difficulties, concern about
disclosing their identity. In addition, they cannot prove the fact
in relation to entry into and departure from country or the fact in
connection with alien registration. Furthermore, for the existing
law, the teacher has to report it according to a civil servant’s
notice obligation system under the Immigration Control Act if
a teacher gets to know the fact that a student and parent are
not registered. Therefore, even if migrant children go to school
due to determination in a principal’s convictions, they always
feel uneasy.
Considering these problems, the National Human Rights Com-
mission of Korea asked the Ministry of Education, Science and
Technology to reform the Clause 1, Article 19 of Enforcement
Decree of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act this
January to apply a course of study in the middle schools and
this year, it’s advice is expected to be given to relevant govern-
ment branches after investigating the actual situation in con-
nection with the migrant children’s right to education.
All the children in the world have a right to get education any
circumstances and the right must not be limited on the ground
of a foreigner. It is the same even though unregistered migrant
workers’ children in Korea. For this, the government needs to
guarantee and revise a law to improve entrance formalities, not
to leave the decisive power on the migrant children’s admis-
sion into a school to principals. Furthermore, relevant civil soci-
ety organizations worrying about the migrant children's right to
education have to pay continuing and positive attention to the
migrant children to help overcome the different language and
culture even after the children enter's a school.
Mun Eun-hyeon
(Civil Rights Div. of National Human Rights Commission of Korea)

Health
Getting to Know AI(Avian Influenza)
Q. What is AI (Avian Influenza)?
AI (Avian Influenza) is a viral disease that can
cause illness in many species of birds such as
chickens, turkeys, ducks, and migratory birds
and spreads quickly. In particular, AI (highly
pathogenic AI), a high-pathogenic strain, is
highly contagious and has the highest mortality
rate. For this, it is classified as Class 1 livestock
epidemics under the Act on the Prevention of
Livestock Epidemics.
Q. How does Ai spread?
It is known that AI spreads through mainly
infected migratory bird's excretion and it
spreads by mainly infected dust, water, feces
or by human’s clothes, shoes, vehicles, instru-
ments, equipments and eggshells stained
with these infected matters between poultry
breeding farms. However, it does not spread
into other regions through air.
Q. What symptoms appear in case of
the chickens and ducks infected
with AI?
In case of chickens, the various symptoms ap-
pear from slight symptom to sudden death.
Generally, feed intake and egg production rate
are reduced. Also, chicken's comb is tinged
with blue and the head and face are puffy
and rapid mortality rate appears. Meanwhile,
for ducks, the egg production rate is lowered
and slight mortality appears. Sometimes, mass
mortality rate appears according to pathogenic
organ.
Q. H
 ow do people be infected with AI?
Unless humans directly contact with the infected
poultry or unless they take in the infected chickens
or ducks raw, AI is not spread among humans. In
particular, there is no danger of infection with AI
by eating cooked chicken or duck.
Q. What are rules to keep?
Those who have been visited the areas of out-
break should abstain from a visit for poultry
breeding farms including chickens or ducks
more than at least one week, and have to be
careful so as not to get their shoes smeared
with the bird's feces when travailing habitat
for migratory birds in Korea. When visiting by
foot, the people have to go through a footing
sterilizing chamber equipped to visiting plac-
es. Furthermore, they need to refrain from vis-
iting the areas where the outbreak occurred
and, in case of visiting the relevant areas, they
would best not to go to poultry breeding farms.
When they make a trip back to their homeland, the
people are not allowed to carry illegal items that
are not quarantined, such as chickens, ducks, etc.
< Inquiry >
National Veterinary Research and Quara ntine
Control (www.nvrqs.go.kr)
Refer to [Main disease information (avian in-
fluenza)]
Division of Animal Disease Prevention, Ministry
for Food Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries
(☎02-500-2078/2079)
Division of Disease Control and Prevention,
National Veterinary Research and Quarantine
Control (☎031-467-1941/4374)
Departments taking charge of quarantine,
such as the livestock department of city
halls and provincial offices

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Kim Won-kyung’s Consultation Underway

④Revised rehire procedures
[Case study]
Mr. N from Vietnam entered Korea on July 16th 2007 under the employment permit system and resigned due to the
company’s financial difficulties while working in ‘A’ electronic company for 2 years and 8 months. He has been worked
since he joined a ‘B’ company on April 1st 2010 by looking for a job. Mr. N helps his family at home working sincerely in
Korea and has his hope to study electronic engineering after returning to Vietnam. However, for this, he has to work for
another 2 years in Korea. What should Mr. N do to extend the working period by 2 years?

Foreign employees’ working period according to the employment permit system is about for 3 years from
the date of entry to Korea. However, according to the revised rehire law, if a user gets permission from the
Ministry of Labor after applying for rehire, one can extend in a range of less than 2 years only one time.

[Act on Employment, etc. of Foreign Workers] Enforcement Regulations of Article 14, Clause 2
(Exemption procedures on the limit of the working period)

① To help foreign workers extend their working period according to the clause second of Article 14, a user shall
attach the following documents to the application form, Form No.3 of the 12th attached sheet, for the working
period to extend, and submit it to the head of an employment security office under the jurisdiction of the relevant
location 45 days before working period ends.
However, if the contract period between a business proprietor and the foreign worker remains more than 3 months,
the deadline for an application for extension is to 15 days before the working period expires.
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 *<Mr. N’s application procedures for rehire>

First of all, Mr. N needs to ask his business proprietor to apply for the rehire and the employer shall apply for the rehire and
get permission after preparing the required documents related to Mr. N (Certificate of Business Registration, Foreigner Reg-
istration Card, Passport, and each copy of Standard Labor Contract) in the employment supporting center. It is within the em-
ployer’s discretion to rehire him. Therefore, if the employer rejects the application, Mr. N, the foreign worker, has no opportunity
to work again.
In particular, keep in mind that an employer shall apply for the rehire 45 days before a foreign worker’s stay expires. However,
in case of a foreign worker with more than 3 months of experience after joining a company, an employer applies only 15 days
before the working period ends. Employment Support Center reviews the application, and if the application meets the relevant
requirement, the center issues the period extension confirmation for foreign workers, whose working period expires , within 7
days from the date that the application is submitted.
(In the existing system of law, an employer can file an application only 30 days before the working period expires. However,
the period is extended as 45 days, and 15 days are added as the exceptions of the rules from April 10th 2010 through law
revisions) In this case, a foreign worker is able to prolong the working period for one year and ten months only one time.
In other words, Mr. N’s employer is able to apply for the rehire at the Employment Support Center under the previous jurisdic-
tion on May 31st before 45 days, expiration date, as his expiration date for working period is July 15th 2010 and as Mr. N has
less than 3 months of experience after joining the company.

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정책 The scale of the alien workforce in 2010

◆This year, the scale of foreign workforce to be employed is 24,000 workers, but the figure has fallen to
10,000, compared to the last year…
 his year, the scale of the migrant workers to be employed in domestic companies has been made
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as 24,000 workers. The figure has dropped 10,000, compared to 34,000 a year earlier. However,
the 24,000 workers to be hired this year are the new foreign workforce according to the Employment
Permit System, and the figure represents 70,000 people increase, compared to 17,000 last year,
considering only alien workforce excluding overseas Korean.

— Foreign Workforce Quotas in 2010

Section Total Manufacturing Construction Service industry Agriculture & stockbreeding Fishery
industry industry industry
Total 24,000 19,500 1,600 100 2,000 800

A Bill Act on the Protection of the Rights of the

Migrant Children(suggestion)–Right to education
On April 22nd, ’the Citizens Action Network for Protection of the Rights of the Migrant Children and Teenagers’ held an open forum on the leg-
islation of the Act on the Protection of the Rights of the Migrant Children focusing on its key issues and the challenges it, currently facing. Let’s
look into the right to education among ‘the act on the Protection of the Rights of the Migrant Children and Teenagers' discussed in this forum.
1.Right to get the compulsory education (Article 5)
Clause 1. The migrant children and teenagers have a right to get compulsory education in accordance with the provision of
Article 8 of『Framework Act on Education』and Article 12 of『Elementary and Secondary Education Act』

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 he current law says that elementary education is provided for free and just that appropriated action is taken as for secondary education.
Accordingly, the present law needs to say a right related to secondary education.
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 he Constitution already says that the compulsory education is free of charge, but it does not mean the entire education is for free.
Therefore, the government has to set regulations in relation to the contents and scope to support free of charge in detail, such as support
fund to run schools, school supplies expenses, and the charge for a school meal.

2.Educational Support (Article 9)

Clause 2. The government shall provide educational opportunities for the migrant children to help have their identity

- To give the confidence of their identity to the migrant children, the education needs support and collaboration by a native country
and relative organizations as well as an individual as a migrant. If a country where the migrants stay, determines their identity and
provides relative education, it is beyond the country’s appropriate role.
- Korean government needs to seek the support system such as bilingual education to help the migrant children exist and hold their
native language and culture.
- To support educational system, taking into account the migrant children’s language and cultural backgrounds, the government
should designate “special classes for foreign labors’ children” in the schools where the migrant students are concentrated and then
should help set the studying environment and supply relative teachers in conjunction with office of education.
- Individualization teaching (teaching centering on Korean language, community, and so on) considering difference among individuals
has to be run in a special class and general classes along with the integrated education programs should be managed as the basis
for artistic training and physical education to do joint activity with general students.

3.Supporting educational facilities (Article 13)

With the revision of『Regulation about Establishment and Management of Alternative Schools』, the government shall
support the establishment of the alternative schools for children of multicultural family.

-The Korean government needs to examine the educational facilities’ quality and contents in detail to help the migrant children
adjust to their life and have their identity in Korea. For example, the government has to review whether the relative educational
facilities are a type of a normal school or the facilities supported by private organizations.