Topic: Combating Malnutrition
Country: Republic of Korea
Delegate Name: Fiona Rodrigues
School: Grand Rapids City High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All South Korea position papers SIMUN 2026 committees
The document presents a Model UN position paper which represents South Korea in UNICEF to fight against malnutrition. The conference regulations allow you to adjust the length of your text through shortening or modifying its current content.
Malnutrition among children develops into a global threat which endangers the survival and development of millions of children who face both undernutrition and micronutrient shortcomings and increasing childhood obesity. The Republic of Korea identifies its past battle with severe child malnutrition as successfully resolved yet multiple low and middle income nations and their at risk communities in the Korean Peninsula continue to deal with both immediate and ongoing food shortage problems. As a high income donor state and former aid recipient South Korea believes UNICEF needs to implement two separate strategies which involve both preventing and treating undernutrition in the most affected countries and tackling new types of malnutrition that include childhood obesity.
The South Korean government demonstrates through its educational program that continuous funding for school meals and primary health services and poverty elimination programs can effectively decrease stunting and wasting among children. Korean children who are under five years old currently exhibit stunting rates of 2.5% and wasting rates of 1.2% which represent some of the lowest stunting and wasting rates found across Asian countries. To promote healthy eating habits South Korea implemented the Special Act on the Safety Management of Children’s Dietary Life which prohibits unhealthy food marketing to children and establishes dietary requirements for food sold at schools and their surrounding areas. School based nutrition education programs with child development programs execute their educational programs through schools.
