Seoul City will recruit foreign interns

By Park Si-soo Seoul City will recruit 40 interns among the foreign students studying here, by Dec. 6, as part of its global internship program. Successful applicants will be assigned to diverse departments to work for five weeks starting on Jan. 7. They will work for six hours from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on weekdays and receive 30,000 won for each day of work. Seoul City has run the internship program since 2008. So far a total of 140 students from 30 countries have completed the program that was launched to extend the city’s global network. “This program is very important for the city to get ideas to make Seoul a more global city,” said Oh Seung-hwan, a Seoul City official in charge of the program. The recruitment started from Monday. For more information, visit seoul.go.kr or global.seoul.go.kr.  http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/11/117_77179.html