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New York City has ordered the city¡¯s over 100 agencies to provide language assistance in Korean. According to the New York Times on Wednesday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed an executive order which requires the city¡¯s public agencies to offer language assistance and translate essential public documents in Chinese, Spanish, Italian, French Creole, Russian and Korean from January 2009.
"For the 1.8 million New Yorkers with limited English proficiency, interacting with government all too often can be a challenge," Bloomberg said. ¡°If people don¡¯t know what we do, don¡¯t know what they should do, what the law requires them to do, don¡¯t know how to get services, all the money that we¡¯re spending providing those services, providing those laws, is meaningless,¡± he added. There are over 3 million immigrants living in New York City, and more than 170 languages are in use.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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