Foreign bloggers to promote census

A group of 10 foreign bloggers will urge other expats to reply to the 2010 census questionnaires.

They speak eight foreign languages as their mother tongues ― English, Chinese, Vietnamese, Mongolian, Japanese, Russian, Thai and Hindu. The questionnaires about foreigners are to be written in the eight languages.

The bloggers will try to share information on census questionnaires with other expats through their personal blogs and connections with their expat communities.

The census will be undertaken for 15 days from Nov. 1, for both Korean nationals and expats. This time, there will be more questions for foreign residents, a move reflecting an increasingly multicultural society.

The foreign bloggers got together in the building of Statistics Korea in Daejon on July 21 to start their census promotion.