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- Neither the state nor local government is permitted to discriminate against children and juveniles of any multicultural family in providing care and education services for children and juveniles. (Article 10, paragraph 1 of the “Multicultural Families Support Act”).

- Members of multicultural families under 18 years of age are entitled to receive support for preschool care and education services to develop language skills, and the assistance necessary for improving their linguistic proficiency, such as teaching materials, and learning support in teaching the Korean language and the mother tongue of their father or mother who is an immigrant by marriage (Article 10, paragraph 3 of the “Multicultural Families Support Act”).

- The state and local governments provide child care free of charge for infants and young children who fall under any of the following circumstances (Article 34, paragraph 2 of the “Child Care Act” and Article 22, paragraph 1 of the “Enforcement Decree of the Child Care Act”):

- The state and local governments must establish and operate child care centers for infants, young children, disabled children, and children of multicultural families intending to receive free child care (Article 34, paragraph 6 of the “Child Care Act”).

- Child care services refer to services provided individually for the protection, raising, etc. of a child of age 12 years or below at his/her residence (Article 2, subparagraphs 1 and 3 of the “Child Care Support Act”).

- Children of multicultural families are entitled to use child care services preferentially unless any reasonable ground exists, such as a budgetary shortfall or insufficient supply of child care providers (Article 13-2, subparagraph 5 of the “Child Care Support Act”).