A Case Study of the Formation and Issues of Multicultural Lifelong Education in South Korea; Focusing on the Multicultural Education of “the Purun Citizen's Community”

Abstract

  The purpose of this paper is to overview the multicultural education policy of South Korea in general and to examine the multicultural education of the Purun Citizen's Community. The Ministry of Education, Science & Technology has implemented a multicultural education policy since 2006. This policy has mostly covered school-based multicultural education, with a few measures of community-based multicultural education. The understanding of multicultural education has changed since several studies and policies were carried out in 2009. Multicultural education is now considered to be lifelong education.

  This article will first review the contents of the multicultural education policy and the formation of lifelong multicultural education policy & its studies. Secondly, it will analyze how the Purun Citizen's Community initiated and cooperated with migrant women by developing multicultural lifelong education activities in Seoul. Thirdly, based on the former examination, it will discuss current issues of lifelong multicultural education in South Korea. Finally, this article will illustrate the importance of lifelong multicultural education and its positive contribution towards creating a co-living community.