중국 결혼이민여성 대상 상호문화교육 방안 -한국과 중국의 신화를 활용하여-

Abstract

This research focuses on the study of intercultural educational program for international marriage migrant women in South Korea, especially the ones from China. Chinese marriage migrant women have problems adapting to Korean society in terms of cultural adaptation due to the existing cultural gap between Korean and Chinese. In China, after the Cultural Revolution, the traditional confucian values disappeared, while socialism prevailed quickly among the society. On the other hand, in Korea, the traditional confucianism and capitalism are still the dominant values. With such cultural gap being rampant, Chinese female migrants are suffering from the cultural conflicts in family relationship and various social contacts in Korea. The Intercultural Education aims to develop one’s intercultural competence so that a person can interact and communicate well with people from different cultural backgrounds. In order to do so, the research is designed to analyze a program that is based on interculturalism which were applied to ten Chinese female migrants in the research. Korean and Chinese myths were utilized as materials to help the students to foster intercultural understanding. The myths are valuable materials for understanding the cultural features and by comparing the myths of each nation, students are likewise to further develop intercultural understanding which contributes to upbuild intercultural competence. With the provided program in the research, the results are as follows; first, the students were able to recover self-esteem of their own culture of motherland and were able to build positive attitude towards Korean culture as well. Second, they developed an ability to understand both cultures while overcoming their own cultural conflicts. Third, they accepted positive cultural features from both cultures which eventually carried out a beneficial solutions that also contributed to the cultural integration of Korean society. Thus the research clearly managed to demonstrate potentiality of intercultural approach to develop cultural educational program for the marriage migrant women in Korea.