Reliable Child-care Centers in Seoul

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1 Reliable Child-care Centers in Seoul

2 Reliable Child-care Centers in Seoul

3 What is a child care center? Introduction - A child care center is an institution for children of age 0 to 6 who haven't yet entered elementary school. - Child care centers set a rule of dividing classes by year of birth. However, children born in January or February can be put into an older class if they are fast in physical growth, by the request of their parents. Periods when this is possible: March 1st, or on the day of entrance (It is impossible to do this during the semester) <Standards for class divisions and child-to-teacher ratio> Classifications(Age) Age 0 Age 1 Age 2 Age 3 Age 4 Age 5 Children per Teacher 3 persons 5 persons 7 persons 15 persons 20 persons 20 persons Excess capacity - Child care centers follow the capacity requirements for each class, but for reasons such as in/outflow of children, classes for age 1~2 may exceed regulations by 2 persons, and classes above that may exceed regulations by 3 persons. (The class for age 0 MAY NOT exceed capacity)

4 Reliable Child-care Centers in Seoul Times of Operation Child care centers run 12 hours a day, by rule. - Weekdays : 07:30AM ~ 07:30PM - Saturdays : 07:30AM ~ 03:30PM All other cases - Special-time Care: Refers to care for children who do not attend regular day-long child care. - Extended-time Care: Refers to care for children after regular times(07:30~19:30) up to 24:00(at least 21:00) - Night-time Care: Refers to care for children between 07:30PM ~07:30AM. - Holiday Care: Refers to child care on Sundays and holidays. Reserve at the Seoul Child Care portal site ( for 'Special-time Care', 'Holiday Care', 'Extended-time Care', 'Night-time Care' and leave your child in our care. Food and snack Child care centers must provide nutritionally balanced, sanitary and safe food to the children. - Food at child care centers are designed to contain the nutritions that help normal growth of children, and follow a menu by designated nutritionists. - Nurseries with less than 100 children under care design their menus by the instruction of nutritionists at child care information centers and health centers nearby.

5 What is a child care center? Child Care fee and other fees, for in-seoul Child Care Fee for Seoul City (as of 2011) (Unit:Won) Age Age 0 Age 1 Age 2 Age 3 Age 4 and up Government-supported child care centers (Seoul-designed included) 394, , , , ,000 Non-supported child care centers 394, , , , ,000 Government-Supported Child Care Centers - National/Public, Corporate, Non-corporate, Child-Care Specializing, Disabled-Specializing Child Care Centers - Civilian and Residential child care centers that follow the Seoul-Model. - Public child care centers or work-place-attached child care centers that receive support from employment insurance funds.

6 Reliable Child-care Centers in Seoul Limits on Other Childcare Payment. After-school activity cost : 50% of limits on childcare fees. (Over four years old) Extended-hours childcare cost : 2,700 Korean Won per hour. Night childcare cost : 100% of limits on childcare fees, variable according to age group. 24 Hours childcare cost : 200% of monthly payment, depending on age Holiday childcare cost : Daily cost (Costs of government child care subsidy by age group / available days of caring for child) 150% In case that it is designated as a 'Holiday Childcare Facility', Daily cost 100% In days childcare available, holiday is exceptional. Part-time childcare cost : 3,000 Korean Won per hour Seoul city collects the following expenses in addition to the childcare fees: entrance fees, on-site education fees, special activity fees. When you first join a child care center in Seoul city, you must pay 50,000 won. (for back packs, notepads, and name-tags) Gym clothes(designed for the specific center) may cost you separately. For the safety of your child, the city of Seoul includes your child in a standard insurance plan(that includes accident insurance). The head of the 'gu' may set the on-site education fees, special-activity fees and all other necessary expenses within actual conditions of the 'gu' through the child-care policy committees approval. The fee limits are set and announced on related webpages.

7 Isarang Card What is Isarang Card? Isarang Card refers to a government-issued electronic card to provide childcare service to parents whose such conditions as income bracket and age must meet the requirements. Isarang Card Application and Issue 1st Parents of infants, government aid target, visit the resident center in their eup, myeon, dong and fill out an application., including application for social welfare services and diverse social benefits (revision), application for using social welfare services (voucher and revision), consent form of financial information, etc. 2nd 3rd Public Employees in eup, myeon, dong. - Counseling and request form. - Register and transfer the data to Haengbok e eum (Integrated Network for Social Welfare) City, gun, gu - Income/Assets inquiry (Financial assets inquiry, etc.): Haengbok e eum (Integrated Network for Social Welfare) - Decision on qualified childcare aid candidates, Notification (From City, gun, gu office to parents) - Card application: Send to the card company. 4th Financial Institution (Shinhan Card) - In accordance with self examination standard and applicant's consent, issued card will be sent to its address. "Isarang Card" Delivery 5th City, gun, gu, eup, myeon, dong - Monitor the beneficiary (use, move-in and move-out) - Manage the nursery home - Manage the voucher.

8 Reliable Child-care Centers in Seoul Guidelines for Isarang card uses Register the Isarang card - You can immediately use it after registration and writing a signature on the issued card. - Ways to register the card : ARS( ), Shinhan card web-site( Although you can use the debit card without signing up, a password is required while making payment online. How to use Isarang card - At the nursery home where your child entered, you make a payment with the Isarang card. - You can use Isarang card for both credit and debit. Therefore, you can use it at any affiliated stores to purchase products.

9 Isarang Card Childcare benefit for multi cultural family Candidates contents and application Applicants : In accordance with Multicultural Families Support Act in Article 2, Section 1, beneficiary must be infants between the age of 0 and 5 prior to entering elementary schools. However, exceptions should be as follows: 1 In accordance with Multicultural Families Support Act in Article 2, Section 1, applicants must meet the requirements that children of former Korean bride or bridegroom, in case that they are not infants of between legal immigrant for marriage (including person who obtain denization from the government) and person who already possessed Korean nationality from the birth, but who currently dwell together with multi cultural family. The applicants must possess Korean citizenship. 2 In case that children (born between January 1 and December 31, 2004) who decide deferred admission to elementary school, they are able to reapply for the program and pay equivalent amount of under age five fees. (However, an administrator must verify the current status of beneficiary) Selection Criteria 1 provide aid regardless of guardian's income bracket. 2 In accordance with Multicultural Families Support Act in Article 2, Section 1, applicants, who are children of between legal immigrant for marriage (including person who obtain denization from the government) and person who possesses Korean citizenship from the birth, will be provided benefits regardless of whether same or different household with multi cultural family. 3 In accordance with Multicultural Families Support Act in Article 2, Section 1, applicants must meet the requirements that children of former Korean bride or bridegroom, in case that they are not infants of between legal immigrant for marriage (including person who obtain denization from the government) and person

10 Reliable Child-care Centers in Seoul who already possessed Korean nationality from the birth, but who currently dwell together with multi cultural family. The applicants must possess Korean citizenship. Notandum while selection - It must verify family relations, etc. via Haengbok e eum (resident family inquiry, register of family relation, etc.). In case of being not confirmed by Haengbok e eum, applicants must submit the documents directly, including a marriage certificate. Range of subsidy : Government child care subsidy by age group application date : begin on March 2011 application process : Apply at eup, myeon, dong resident center where your children's ID indicates. Issue Isarang Card (Electronic voucher card for childcare) Once using nursery home, make a payment Required documents for applying : 1 application for social welfare services and diverse social benefits (revision) 2 Income report 3 application for using social welfare services (voucher and revision) 4 Isarang card (Voucher card) application and issue and consent form for personal information use 5 consent form of financial information

11 Which child Care Center is right for my child? 4 things to thoroughly check when joining a child Care Center The professionalism and traits of the director and teachers - Are they kind and warm to children? - Do they have a good grasp of the childrens' characteristics? - Are they qualified as child-care profesisonals?(do they have certification?) Health and Nutrition Care (Hygiene and Cleanliness) - Are health checkups of children done in a regular basis? - Is nutrition for children managed through a balanced diet? Environment of child care centers and Safety - Are yearly, monthly and weekly child care plans according to age and characteristics of children, season, and national holidays being provided to the parents? - Is safety education being conducted in anticipation of accidents? - Is a safe system for children to return home safely established? - Is there an active emergency system in anticipation of emergency situations? Parent Participation - Is there mutual communication between the nursery and parents? - Are there various activities that relate to parents and family such as parent education, parent consultation, and parent participation activities?

12 Reliable Child-care Centers in Seoul When you send your child to a child care center, make sure to check for the following signs at the door: Seoul-type Child-care Centers Evaluation system for good child care centers in Korea - Korean Childcare Accreditation What is the Korean Childcare Accreditation? - The Korean Childcare Accreditation system was introduced to enhance the quality of the child-care system of facilities in Korea, and to perform an objective evaluation through evaluation indices and give national certification to qualified facilities. Child-care centers are evaluated by four steps - application, self-inspection, evaluation, and consideration - and as for the criteria to evaluate the quality of the facilities there are 6 indices - child-care environment, management, child - care curriculum, mutual action and teaching methodology, health and nutrition, and safety. (care curriculum, mutual action and teaching methodology, health and nutrition, and safety.)

13 Which child Care Center is right for my child? A child-care accreditation system unique to Seoul city - Seoul-type Child-care Centers The Seoul-type child-care center system is an accreditation system separate to the evaluation systems, a system unique to Seoul city. In order to be accredited as a Seoul-type child-care center you must be qualified by the government(6 areas, 70 subjects are evaluated) and receive scores above the standard in Seoul city for the following: reliable childcare, tailored childcare, clean management, professionalism of child-care personnel - 4 areas and 12 subjects. Autonomous learning systems, 1doctor-per-facility, IPTV installation and usage rule, and Child-care monitoring systems are rules that Seoul city first introduced, and play a large role in enhancing child-care quality. Seoul-type Child-care Centers

14 You may rely on Seoul's Child-Care Centers-Waiting-list website child care Centers 'Seoul City Child Care Portal Service ( 1) Visit the Seoul City Child-care Portal Service Website ( 2) Click on the log-in link on the upper-right corner of the screen. (Enter the parents' name and foreigner registration number to login (there is no procedure for membership) (You must login with the information of the parent that you entered when you first registered to be placed on the waitlist) Only one parent can register for one child. ((ex) Mother or Father, but not both) 3) Click on Register for Entrance > Register for Entrance 4) Search for a child care center Serach for a map of child care centers and select the one you want. 5) Click on "See Details" 6) Enter the child's foreigner registration number, and click on the link that says "Register for entrance" on the right. (You will receive an SMS that confirms your registration) * Checking for your registration to the waitlist Click on "register for entrance" while you are logged in, then check your status on "recent reservations". You will be notified with the results of your registration, and check it on the website.

15 You may rely on Seoul's Child-Care Centers-Waiting-list website child care Centers Ask for help - The embassy of the appropriate country - Seoul Global Center Language ENG CHN JPN VIE MGL Tel ~ Seoul Child Care Information Center / Children Plaza child care information center / children plaza Tel ~8 Seoul ~1 Gaepo-domg ,4 Seoul Gangnam-gu Nonhyeon-dong Daechi-dong ~ ~9 Samseong-dong ,6 Gangdong-gu Gangseo-gu Gwanak-gu Gwangjin-gu ~ ~

16 Reliable Child-care Centers in Seoul Seoul Guro-gu Geumcheon-gu Nowon-gu Dobong-gu Dongdaemun-gu Dongjak-gu Mapo-gu Seocho-gu Seongdong-gu Seongbuk-gu Songpa-gu Yeongdeungpo-gu Eunpyeong-gu Jongno-gu Jungnang-gu ~ ~ ~ ~1

17 You may rely on Seoul's Child-Care Centers-Waiting-list website child care Centers - Seoul City Multicultural Family Centers Multicutural Family Centers Gu Tel Language Guro-gu CHN Geumcheon-gu VIE Nowon-gu VIE Dongdaemun-gu IDN, JPN, CHN, PHL Dongjak-gu VIE, CHN Seoul Seodaemun-gu VIE Seongbuk-gu VIE, CHN, KHM Songpa-gu CHN Yeongdeungpo-gu RUS, VIE, CHN Yongsan-gu VIE Jongno-gu ~2 VIE

18 Institution that may help when raising children - The Green Toys Library of Seoul City What is the Green Toy Library of Seoul City? A place to rents out toys that help child development A place that provides space for parents and children to play A place that provides child-care support programs A place that provides information needed when raising a child What is at the Green Toy Library of Seoul City? Free Toy Rental Service Anyone with children of age under 5(60months) or disabled children of age under 12 can join as a member and rent toys free of charge. Seoul City Child-Care Information Center Website (Toys and Book Rental>How to use Toy Library > Link to Toy Library Website) Join Green Toy Library (Toy Library Website) Qualify as a member (you must visit yourself, bring ID, copy of resident registration, annual fee) Have a membership card issued (new members: associate membership card Full Member : full membership card Choose and rent toy (2 points for associate members, 3 points for full mumbers) Return Toys (Rental period : Associate members have 10 days, Regular members have 14 days, and 7 day extensions are possible for each rental

19 Institution that may help when raising children - The Green Toys Library of Seoul City You are automatically an associate member If you borrow and turn in 6 rentals without delay or damage, you become a full member Benefits of Full Membership - You can reserve toys online. - Toy delivery and pickup are available without visit Free Playroom Use A space where parent and children can play together and participate in play activities such as role-playing, stacking objects, and manipulating objects. Twice a week(see Website) Family Counseling and Child Development Diagnosis By providing information for raising children and family consulting, we support peoples' roles as parents. Once a week(prior reservation required) Childcare Support System Helps mutual interaction between parents and children, and runs programs that enhance childrens' development. Programs: Baby Massages to enhance all five senses, Eurythmics

20 Reliable Child-care Centers in Seoul Toy Exchange If you bring reusable toys we exchange them for other toys * Complete toys with all parts * Save and educational toys Phone Number ~3 Map