Foreign Residents in Seoul to Receive Coronavirus Relief Payments
|For some expats living in Seoul you may be getting a check from the City of Seoul soon:
Foreigners living in Seoul will receive a one-time Covid-19 relief payment, a city official confirmed Wednesday.
Joong Ang Ilbo
During a plenary session Tuesday, the Seoul Metropolitan Council passed a supplementary budget bill that included plans to allocate 33 billion won ($27.4 million) for a program to dole out emergency funds to foreigners.
But the city has been light on basic details, including the timing and payment amounts.
Seoul’s decision to provide Covid-19 emergency payments to foreigners came less than a month after Korea’s human rights watchdog, the National Human Rights Commission of Korea, issued a policy recommendation to the metropolitan government of Seoul and the provincial government of Gyeonggi not to discriminate against foreigners when providing Covid-19 relief.
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Commie moon helping out Chinese expats, that’s nice.
Beijing Man should be happy.