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The Existence of Female Migrants in Korean Society and An Alternative Biblical Interpretation

  • Civil Society and NGO
  • 2008, 6(2), pp.101~134
  • Publisher : The Third Sector Institute
  • Research Area : Social Science > Social Science in general > Other Social Science in general

Park Hyung-Soon 1

1호남신학대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

As Korean society continues to approach becoming a multi-cultural society, migrants to Korea which come from different: cultural, historical, and social backgrounds, tend to coexist with Koreans. It is important to look at the coexistence in a multi-cultural society, of different groups of female migrant workers and female marriage migrants in the light of biblical perspective. Female migrant workers and female marriage migrants have all been living as members of Korean society. They have faced difficulties as they try to adapt themselves to new circumstances in Korea. Prejudice and discrimination result from ignorance which do not accept the diversity of different cultures, ethnicities, languages, traditions and religions. Currently there are more than one million migrants from all over the world, including: female migrant workers and female marriage migrants living in Korea. The existence of female migrants is not only conductive to increasing the diversity of Korean society, but also to challenging the identity and self-perception of Korean citizens. It must be stated that Koreans, in general, need to more properly acknowledge and accept the role that female migrants play in an increasingly multi-cultural society. Such an understanding will also help to bring the voices of female migrants into the centre of discourse in Korean society, in the light of an alternative biblical interpretation.

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