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Originally Posted by blimp
slightly off-topic
nyororin,
do u know where one can read more about this, as i together with some of my friends didn't know about this, the monetary benefits i mean? and just to clarify who pays? the japanese or the korean government?
in theory the koreans nationals would have to give up their korean nationality too even if japan allowed dual or multiple citizenship as south korea too doesn't allow dual or multiple citizenship. i don't know about north korea though.
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I don`t know about any sites in English, but a search on 在日韓国人 / 在日朝鮮人 + 社会保障 will bring up quite a lot in Japanese. It looks like the amount of benefits given depends a lot upon the area, with some offering free everything - and others only offering more reasonable assistance.
The Japanese government pays. Both up front, and through various back routes to skirt several laws and limitations. (Paying to organizations which distribute the money, etc.) For example - with schooling, the Japanese government bars using public funds to pay for anything other than regular public schooling - ie. nothing to special interest/religious/ethnic/etc schools... To get around this, they don`t pay anything to the schools themselves... Instead, the government gives school related tax breaks and does a sort of "pay back" for tuition paid to these schools. In effect, they are funding the schools by paying the students the price of the tuition.