Recently, the Korea society has witnessed the increase of international marriage as a social phenomenon. It began in early 1990s at a time when the Korean women residing in China have been introduced into Korea as a means of the ‘Rural Bachelor Marr...
Recently, the Korea society has witnessed the increase of international marriage as a social phenomenon. It began in early 1990s at a time when the Korean women residing in China have been introduced into Korea as a means of the ‘Rural Bachelor Marriage Link Event’ by the local governments with the diplomatic relation between Korea and China. The introduction of low salary foreign labors are keen to Korea, while international marriage is selected as an alternative for foreign women. Marriage with foreigners has increased due to such background. In particular, there are increasing numbers of multicultural families consisting of Korean men and foreign women. The Korean society has already entered into multicultural society due to the increase of international marriage since 1990s. It means the Korean society has undergone from the 1st generation of migrants by marriage to the 2nd generation.
However, there are also many social problems in accordance with the rapid increase of multicultural families. The sharp increase of divorce rate is the most serious problems.
There are various causes such as difference of language and culture, economic difficulties, family violence, social prejudice and children education. While there are various government support policies reflecting social changes, it also has difficulties to reflect social stage of multicultural families or their needs, which requires imminent policy change.
Besides linguistic and cultural social adaptation education by means of public welfare for the stable and basic life as members of Korea, vocational education is required to female migrants by marriage because economic and social independence is the utmost important foundation in Korea and has effects on the existence of multicultural families.
Accordingly, this study aimed to examine the present condition of multicultural families and their problems, analyze current governmental support policy and education support program, and develop tailored vocational education by finding niche market for therm. As a research methodology, it carried out questionnaire survey on the vocational education to 20s~40s female migrants by marriage who were registered members of the healthy family support center of Gangdong-gu and the multicultural support center of Gangdong-gu and are trainees ACE IT Education center, a vocational training institute to analyze their needs. It was followed by the present condition and cases of female vocational education program executed by the Ministry of Employment and Labor and suggestion of tailored educational program for niche jobs for them.
As a result of questionnaire survey and interview, they needed Korean language training and vocational training most, which indicates that if the Korean language education and vocational education are interlocked and any in-depth training related to niche jobs are unified, there might be a huge effect on the employment. And, to solve problems of specialty and of time and place of training for the vocational education, the use of vocational training institutes appointed by the Ministry of Employment and Labor might be of great help for the economic independence. For the sound vocational education, the ability of ordinary Korean language proficiency would be more effective. The prerequisites such as resident duration and Korean language ability test are required.
And a network construction for early adoption and stable family life from the early stage of move-in are imminent for female migrants by mirage. In their initial stage, customized survey by life cycle would be helpful for an early adaptation into the Korean society. The development of customized education program for niche jobs would be expected to help stable life and economic independence. Thus, such vocational education supports must be executed.
Accordingly, this study devised a customized education program for niche jobs to solve difficulties of vocational education due to various social backgrounds and to assist economic independence. In the first place, it divided areas into three: Korean education, technical education and counseling education which were in turn, classified by 3 stages: basic education, major education and in-depth education. This study suggested a mixed education program with collective training and remote training considering the social background of female migrants by marriage.
This study is meaningful in that it figured out the present condition of multicultural families in Korea and their problem and developed an educational program for niche jobs based on the questionnaire survey and interview. It is expected that female migrants by marriage might become healthy members of the Korean society by utilizing the vocational education program for stable life of multicultural families and that various education program might developed for niche jobs.