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Some Proposals on Chinese Education for Children of Married Immigrant Family in Korea

  • The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China
  • Abbr : JSLCKC
  • 2015, (37), pp.107-128
  • DOI : 10.16874/jslckc.2015..37.005
  • Publisher : Korean Society of Study on Chinese Languge and Culture
  • Research Area : Humanities > Chinese Language and Literature
  • Published : February 28, 2015

Jung, Yousun 1 이다혜 1

1상명대학교

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ABSTRACT

The number of multicultural families accounts for 2% of whole number of population. Among them, the multicultural family consisting of non-Korean Chinese and Korean is of the greatest importance showing 20,635(66.2%) marriage cases between Korean man and non-Korean Chinese woman and 5,042(42.2%) between non-Korean Chinese man and Korean woman. For those reasons, the number of children from multicultural family has been increasing. According to Safety Executive, the number of the multicultural children has steadily increased from 44,285 in 2007 to 204,204 this year. As the percentage of non-Korean Chinese married Immigrant family is 50.7%, it takes the first place. In contrast with this trend, marriage based immigrants who have Chinese nationality still complain of difficulties in settling down in Korea. Due to the environment that using Korean language is preferred, they don't have any choice but to use Korean at home, leading to the lack of communication with children using Chinese. As a result, emotional connectedness is going down between parents and children and they have an identity crisis. They have become various elements in home problems and can influence negative effects on social unification. It's the right time to implement Chinese teaching for the spouse and children of non-Korean Chinese married Immigrant family with an active and tolerant attitude to narrow down the gap of problems and to have the influence as a global society. However, it is true that a discussion or enforcement on the social recognition and need of this problems has not been treated. Thus, this study proposed Chinese teaching for the children of non-Korean Chinese married Immigrant family.

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