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A Constitutional View about Multiculture in Korea

  • DONG-A LAW REVIEW
  • 2010, (48), pp.1-29
  • Publisher : The Institute for Legal Studies Dong-A University
  • Research Area : Social Science > Law

Choi Kyeong Ok 1

1영산대학교

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ABSTRACT

A sentence that ‘Korea is a single-race nation’ has been words of the past in Korea. Instead, a phrase of ‘Multiracial state’, rather than ‘Multinational state’, has appeared, and the word of ‘Multiculture’ has been naturally created due to the increase of foreign population in Korea since the 1990s. Human beings have the right to live happy wherever or whoever they are, and this is called the right to pursue happiness (Article 10 of the Constitution). With respect to this right to be naturally pursued by human beings and citizens, the term of ‘Multiculture’ contains the distinction between Home Culture and Alien Culture. Therefore, a constitutional significance hereof lies in the differentiation that may be caused by the distinction between Home and Alien Culture. This thesis deals with a constitutional concept about multiculturalism in Korea (II), and social integration types about multiculturalism and human rights, of which details focus on various matters related to (1) acquisition of nationality; (2) multiculturalism and education; and (3) human rights of foreign workers in Korea. Table of Contents is as follows: Ⅰ. Preface Ⅱ. A constitutional concept about multiculturalism in Korea Ⅲ. Social integration types in multiculturalism and human rights in Korea. 1. Acquisition of nationality by marriage immigrants. 2. Multiculturalism and education 3. Human rights of foreign workers. Ⅳ. Conclusion

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