This paper purposes to indicate that the affirmative action adopted to increase multicultural socity rates in Korean labor market has lost the original meaning of its own, through examining the examples of other countries which had employed affirmative action before Korea did and reviewing scholarly debates about instrumentalizing affirmative action. Affirmative Action is more controversial or more divisive than any other issues in America. Recently the Supreme Court of the United States sent Fisher v. Texas At Austin back to the lower court for additional review. The Court held that because the Fifth Circuit did not hold the University to the demanding burden of strict scrutiny articulated in Grutter and Bakke, its decision affirming the District Court’s grant of summary judgment to University was incorrect. Affirmative action is originally enacted to reward people who suffered inequality that had been historically reproduced by the discrimination in the past; however, this meaning of compensatory justice has tended to disappear in the process of adopting and applying it in Korean society. Especially, in the America. where the strong effect of neoliberalism on politics, economy and society has existed, affirmative action has been replaced by the instrumental affirmative action or the emphasis on diversity. Affirmative action in Korea has been through similar changes. Also, the primary focus of this paper is on government affirmative action efforts.