재한 몽골 유학생들의 문화적응과 모바일 폰 이용에 관한 연구 = Acculturation of Mongolian Students in Korea and Their Use of Mobile Phone

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this Article is to explore the negative effects of mobile phone on the acculturation of Mongolian students in Korea. Unlike landline phone which connect places to places, mobile phone connect a person to a person. It individualizes communication. It means that we have become individually addressable regardless of where we are and what we are up to. So the using of mobile phone has the tendency to strength homophilic interpersonal interactions. In Korea, Mongolian students keep the strong ties with their own national students regardless of where they live and what their major is, as well as with their parents and friends in Mongolia by voice call of mobile phone. And they coordinate flexibly their own daily interactions by mobile phone. Mobile phone gives them the ability to interact co-presently and almost simultaneously in mediated interactions. But they rarely call and text to Korean fellows over the mobile phone. Mobile phone gives them ability to form the selective interpersonal networks which consist of their own national students. This homopilic network is functioning as a shield against the Korean culture and language. So, it may not help their academic accomplishment in Korea.