2022, Vol.12, No.

Multi-cultural Society and Education Studies 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.74

pISSN : 2586-6206 / eISSN : 2713-7155
https://journal.kci.go.kr/MSES

The purpose of this study is to deal the problem of foreign students dropping out based on a qualitative research method from the perspective of the ‘foreign student’ and to suggest a solution. Most of the local colleges have been covering university’s quota and finances. In particular, local universities are intensively attracting Vietnamese students and are operating Korean language education centers and university faculties. As a side effect of this, there are problems of foreign students’ dropout of local universities. In order to diagnose the causes and solutions of these problems, in-depth interviews were conducted with Vietnamese students studying at a private university in Busan in this study. In this study, paying attention to the fact that foreign students are studying and working at the same time, we examined the dropout problem from an insider’s point of view. As a result of an in-depth interview, it was confirmed that the perceptions of ‘dropout’ and ‘illegal stay’ among those involved in the Korean language training course can be broadly classified into four categories. The summary of contents is as follows: the process of the study abroad and the perception of the economic cost, labor as an international student, the dropout of language trainees, and Korean language learning.

This study presents necessity of extending the period of stay through the status of sojourn and current state of foreign workers, and analyzes the necessity of family migration due to the long-term stay of foreign workers and the problems and effects associated with it. Foreign workers entering the country under “Employment Permit System” are short-term rotational replacement workers who have to return to their home countries after a short period of time. In the present, the meaning of short-term cycle replacement has faded. It is time to improve “Family Immigration System” considering the actual status of stay of foreign workers.

The purpose of this article is to reflect critically on the hostility and hospitality of multicultural Korean society toward Yemeni refugees. I would like to point out the possibility of inclusion in Cumda culture of Jeju island. Cumda culture carries out indifference as a precursor to inclusion. This article appeals for the consideration of indifference beyond hostility and hospitality, and εποχη, the suspension of judgment, before the perception of others. Hostility and hospitality are expressions of immediate and active interest in others. When we meet refugees we face, we usually present hostility or hospitality. However, There is actually a third reaction. Indifference. Hostility and hospitality are expressions of immediate and active concern, but indifference is a moratorium on attention. 22% of Koreans’ positions on refugee acceptance were in unable-to-express-position in June 2018(UNHCR, 2020). And 61.4% of Jeju islanders did not select the pros and cons(Jeon & Kim, 2021). This means moratorium on interest, that is indifference. Jeju people would seem not to pay much attention to the new strangers. This originated from Jeju’s CUMDA culture which has been said ‘Dru-ssang Nae-bula’. It has been believed in Jeju to get to be a community by standing alone in indifference.