Currently, South Korea has constructed base of multi-cultural and multi-racial society by international marriage, immigrant labor, North Korean defectors, multinational enterprise labor, tourists and illegal sojourners so that foreigners staying in So...
Currently, South Korea has constructed base of multi-cultural and multi-racial society by international marriage, immigrant labor, North Korean defectors, multinational enterprise labor, tourists and illegal sojourners so that foreigners staying in South Korea have occupied as many as 2% of total population to make multi-cultural and multi-racial country.
The process to be multi-cultural and multi-racial country can be classified into nationalism, conservatism, the attitude of on-lookers and pluralism, etc.
The paper has examined problems of the relation between Mongolia and South Korea that starts to make change to be multi-cultural and multi-racial country, and it has investigated improvements.
The questionnaire survey of the Mongolian's understanding on the South Koreans as well as the South Koreans' understanding on Mongolia, comparison analysis of the Korean and the Mongolian textbooks, and depth interview for investigation of actual conditions of Korean-Mongolian multi-cultural family children, etc were used.
The questionnaire survey showed that first impression of both the Koreans and the Mongolians was mutually affirmative. The Korean people who have strong inclination of racism seem to think that both the Koreans and the Mongolians have same kinship by Mongolian spot.
Despite similar appearance, both people have a lot of differences in culture, languages and geography, etc. And, Korea often keeps position of powerful party against Mongolia.
The textbooks of both countries have problems: The textbook of Korea includes contents only in the era of Mongolia's occupation in the Korean Peninsula, while that of Mongolia does no content on Korea. Both countries have education level as well as consciousness level that both people have similar appearance, because of no knowledge each other.
The depth interview of multi-cultural family showed much serious problems between both countries. Most of multi-cultural familyes consist of the Korean husbands and the Mongolian wives who mostly get married by illegal routes, so that they produce great problems. The problems are serious because the Korean husbands think that the immigrant women from Mongolia and other developing countries are not the ones having personality but the ones like articles bought by paying. Most of the women at multi-cultural family are not given opportunities to learn the Korean language as well as the Korean culture and to worsen the problems.
To solve problems of the 21st century multi-cultural era, the concerned parties, for instance, the Korean Government, the Mongolian Government, the Korean people, the Mongolian people, the Korean students, the Mongolian students and the educational world, etc shall make efforts a lot. So, the paper has suggested solutions.
First of all, the Korean people are demanded to cognize that Korea has already entered multi-cultural and multi-national society and to develop cultural and conscious level enough to meet changes of the society.