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adaptation to Korean society should be introduced. Furthermore, spousal education
for understanding the cultural differences of migrants and communicating with them
and education for multicultural family members can be made into programs at the
same time. Through these educations, we can consider a measure to facilitate
migrants to become cultural mediators and to be trained to be multicultural
education lecturers equipped with multicultural competency. Next, a means must be
developed to empower multicultural competency of professionals from institutions
implementing national policies to smoothly promote policies responding to
multicultural settings. In addition, and above all, concrete policy plans must be
sought for providing social services that grasp the life cycle of marriage migrant
women and regional demands considering a multicultural reality suitable for
progressing into a multicultural society. In the extended study, we take a look at
public education and the development of contents of programs, which will be used
in multicultural education in daily life, direction for policy development in the future,
and social services suitable for multicultural surroundings.
5. Conclusion
This is a prime time to prepare for transitioning into a multicultural society on a
large scale. At this time, we should guarantee human rights of migrants and find a
way to make and practice diverse institutional and practical measures to resolve
problems of discrimination and inequality due to racial and cultural differences,
including guaranteeing the right to live. Additionally, multicultural policies should be
systematically established with long-term vision as well, which is related to a change
in perception of the general public who will be in contact with migrants with racial
and cultural differences in the real world at the everyday level, and it should also be
related to promoting cultural openness.
Success or failure in transitioning to a successful multicultural society depends
on diverse factors. The very first step forward in transitioning to a successful
multicultural society that recognizes and respects racial and cultural differences is
having tolerant attitudes towards others with differences, taking the differences not
as discrimination but as diversity, reflecting on one’s own cultures or values. It is
because practices carried out in daily life, which is just as important as those in legal
and institutional frameworks, is significant in genuine multiculturalism, which aims
for all members of society to not experience discrimination and inequality because of
racial and cultural differences. Taking this into account, multicultural policies in the
future should go a step forward not by mere “consideration” of minorities but by the
encouragement of awareness that differences in minorities can become a new asset
and social tolerance can become an impetus for generating creative cultures. All
these processes are part of the new multicultural empowerment process as well.
ESD basically shares the same goal with multicultural empowerment of multicultural