Seoul unveils "MY SEOUL+" platform for foreign residents
Navigating bureaucracy in a foreign country can often feel like translating a map in the dark. For the more than 400,000 foreign residents who call Seoul home — ranging from university students and tech professionals to marriage migrants and factory workers — the challenge has rarely been a lack of government services, but rather finding them hidden across fragmented public websites and buried…
Seoul has introduced a new online platform called MY SEOUL+ to streamline access to government services for the city's foreign residents. With over 400,000 foreign residents in Seoul, ranging from students and professionals to marriage migrants, the challenge has been finding services scattered across different websites in dense Korean language.
The new MY SEOUL+ portal aims to eliminate these administrative barriers by consolidating essential public services, real-time updates and localized support into a single, user-friendly digital hub. This overhaul reflects a shift in Korea's demographic policy, where local governments are transitioning from temporary foreign-worker policies to long-term integration strategies.
As the number of foreign residents in Korea exceeds 2.8 million, the importance of digital accessibility for social stability becomes increasingly apparent.
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