When people live, they need lots of documents. Also, they have to know to how to fill out them. However, as the world is going to be more global than before, there are lots of foreigners in Korea. Of course, they are not perfect at Korean, so they need help. Language on documents is very different from it on day. The language on the documents is very difficult to understand. I am going to list the three specific examples, business certificates and health insurance, drivers’ license and some other documents which are necessary for living for foreigner in Korea.
When I was in America, one of my aunt’ friends could not be good at English. She always struggled with how to fill out some kinds of documents like what I have written. Because of that, she always got help from translators. Even though she can speak English quite well, she has never learned reading and writing skills. Whenever she has to fill out and check some documents for living, she has to pay money to professional translators.
One of my Japanese friends had the same problem in America. She came to learn English, so she was not good at English. However, at that time, she really needed a car to go to her school. In Minnesota of America, there is not driving tests written by foreign language. Before she moved to Minnesota, she had stayed in LA. LA. has so many different kinds of foreigners, so they have many kinds of documents like driving tests. My friend was not able to get a license in MN, so she used the license that she got in LA.
Like what I wrote examples, even though foreigners have to get something for living, some of them cannot get it because of the language. In Korea, I do not think we have different kinds of language in the documents. Many women from East Asia countries are moving to Korea to get married. However, I think we are not ready to accept them. In America, I heard that there are many translators and volunteers to translate, but we do not. If foreigners in Korea are not good at Korean, they must have difficulties.
Korea has less foreigners than America has, so it is too much to make all of documents translated. However, they need to provide translated them for foreigners. Absolutely, I think the Korean governments cannot translate them into all kinds of the languges. However, we can hire translators volunteers for them. They can make an effort to translate them into English and Vietnamese. If we want to make our country more global and better, I think we need to prepare those kinds of thinks for foreigners in Korea.