Department of Justice announced that the number of foreign residents in South korea exceeded 1.2 million as of June, 2010. It has been only three years since 2007,the era of one million foreigners.
The number of foreign residents in Korea is growing r...
Department of Justice announced that the number of foreign residents in South korea exceeded 1.2 million as of June, 2010. It has been only three years since 2007,the era of one million foreigners.
The number of foreign residents in Korea is growing rapidly and this heralds that Korea is fast turning into a multicultural society.
The increase of numbers of foreign residents in Korea which was due to the tidy of globalization and the increase of mixed-race marriages that was only fifty thousand people in 1990 has the similar tendency to the flow of international migration. According to the UN estimation of international migration, the Foreign-born population is about 214 million and that accounts for 3.1% of the world numbers 6.9 billion as of 2010. The multiculturalism that includes the meaning of the society where different values and culture are accepted is world’s universal phenomenon.
This study examines the effects on the marriage satisfactory level caused by the Marital conflicts of the multicultural family, the international marriage migrant women. In order to improve the marriage satisfactory level of the marriage migrant women, the measures have been explored by investigating how the factors in terms of the sociology of population and couple conflicts may influence the marriage satisfactory level.
The study has investigated concepts, current situation and problems of the multicultural family, concepts and factors of the Marital conflicts, concepts and factors of marriage satisfactory level, and previous studies on the Marital conflicts and the marital satisfaction level, examined couple conflicts level of migrant women, the marital satisfaction level, and the optimal factor of the Marital conflicts that affect the marital satisfaction level through the statistical analysis such as frequency analysis, average, standard deviation, the One way ANOVA, T-test and applied Stepwised the multiple Regression analysis to prove the hypothesis on the Marital conflicts that affects the marital satisfaction level of migrant women.
This study purpose is to contribute the marriage satisfaction of the couples by verifying the couple conflict factors to affect the marriage satisfactory level of migrant women and Based on the above analysis, the following proposals are recommended to reduce and solve the couple conflicts of migrant women.
First, in order for organizations and counseling centers to improve the marriage satisfaction of migrant women, the programs to over come couple conflicts are required to promote the family relationship, improve communication skill, and to enhance the health. Also the programs need the involvement of professional social workers as well as the combination of family treatment specialists for the couple counseling and family treatment.
Second, currently just a few of the human rights of marriage migrant men living with Korean women and the attention and studies on their families exist, and the family support policy is excluded as well. For multi-cultural society, diverse studies and basic data are required for involvement and supports in terms of social welfare.
Third, From this study, it can be concluded that immigrant spouses can adjust to Korean life and lead a proper household if they are given the proper physical and emotional support. To better improve their marriage life and their overall quality of living, an expansion of the social welfare system, and an integrated mentoring system which will aid in solving conflicts and problems in the immigrant spouses’ households, is much needed. From evaluating the cases, it can be said that problems in immigrant spouses’ households are due to complications of conflict and mental suffering; therefore social workers or counselors specialized in a certain country or region would be ideal in resolving their issues. Rather than dividing up the immigrant spouses’ conflicts within the bureaucracy, the government needs to receive cooperation from an NGO and send out social workers who would visit immigrant spouses regularly and act as their mentor. The aim of this integrated mentoring system would be to find a support plan that fits each individual immigrant spouse and to give them the cultural, economical, and legal support they need; thus helping them to adjust to Korean life, solve their problems independently, live in healthy families and ultimately, to become a member of the Korean society.
Fourth, the previous studies have been based on the women's study to build the basic research and approach to the migrant women with the discriminated views that the migrant women were regarded as the weak people and victims, or with the ideological trends that requested them to get accustomed to the Korean society. So the marriage migrant women have been considered as a victim of international marriage and ignored of their strategies and actions to pursue the active life. This study expects more various studies on the families and local society system to improve the quality of life by considering the position of marriage migrant women themselves.