Printer-friendly VersionKorean Community Consultation
About the Consultation
The Korean Community Consultation is a strategic approach being taken by the Office of Ethnic Affairs (OEA) in working with the New Zealand Korean community on complex issues related to public perceptions, integration and relationship building, in recognition of the growing contribution that people of Korean origin make to New Zealand.
As a first phase in the programme the OEA has engaged with the Korean community at a Korean Community Consultation Meeting which included keynote speakers and workshops. The intention of the meeting was to facilitate dialogue and discussion on issues pertinent to the Korean community in New Zealand, including informed citizenship and well-being issues and government information/resources for migrants.
About the Korean community in New Zealand
Koreans form a distinctly ‘new’ community in New Zealand, with less than 1,000 people of Korean origin residing in the country before 1990. By the time of the 2006 census there were 30,792 people of Korean origin resident.
Presently Koreans are the third largest ethnic group in the ‘Asian’ category and make up 8 percent of the ‘Asian’ population. ‘Asian’ was the fastest-growing ethnic identity nationally between 2001 and 2006.
Korea is New Zealand’s second largest source of overseas students, with approximately 13,000 Korean students studying in New Zealand in 2007, and the fifth largest source of visitors with over 100,000 arrivals annually.
New Zealand maintains diplomatic relations with both the Republic of (South) Korea and the Democratic Peoples’ Republic of (North) Korea. In 2007 New Zealand exports to the south totalled NZD 1.33 billion, with the main exports including Forest products, beef, aluminium, dairy products, petroleum oil, fruit, raw skins and hides and seafood. In the same trading year the Korean south exported NZD 1.19 billion in goods to New Zealand, mainly petroleum oils, motor cars, mobile telephones, electronic goods, machinery, iron, steel and plastics . New Zealand and the Korean north concluded no non-aid trade in 2006 or 2007.
Presentations made to the forum
Keynote speaker and Workshop presentations made to the first Korean Community Forum are available as special large documents for you to download to your computer.
If you are unable to open these special documents, please click here.
| Keynote speaker presentations | Presentation topic | Files available to download | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mervin Singham - Director, Office of Ethnic Affairs (Office of Ethnic Affairs) | Introduction | introduction.pps (23.2MB) | ||
| introduction.zip (22.8MB) | ||||
| Department of Internal Affairs | Informed Citizenship and Wellbeing | dia.pps (1.2MB) | ||
| dia.zip (1.0MB) |
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| Electoral Enrolment Centre | It's election year | elections.pps (1.2MB) | ||
elections.zip (1.1MB)| Tertiary Education Commission |
Tertiary Education and Training snapshot |
tec.pps (0.2MB) |
tec.zip (0.1MB) | |
| Workshop presentations | Workshop topic | Files available to download |
|---|---|---|
| Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) | ACC | ACC.pps (0.8MB) |
| ACC.zip (0.5MB) | ||
| Problem Gambling Foundation | Problem Gambling, Safety and Well-Being in Korean Community | problemgambling.pps (0.7MB) |
| problemgambling.zip (0.6MB) |
| All resources (.zip archive) | File available to download |
|---|---|
| All Korean Community Consultation presentations - keynote speaker and workshops | allpresentations.zip (26.2MB) |
Accessing special documents
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- .pps format files requires either Microsoft PowerPoint 1997 or higher, or the Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer utility to be installed on your computer. You can download a free version of Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer from the Microsoft Corporation site.
- .zip format files may require a compression utility to be installed on your computer. You can download an evaluation version of the Winzip utility from the Winzip site.