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Abstract

This study aims to examine the viewpoints of contemporaries towards muticultural families represented in popular culture. For this purpose, I referred to the multicural families as texts in the movies, My Wedding Expedition and Wandeoki, using the cultivation theory. As we know, a popular narrative can be an effective representative means, overcoming the estrangement between multicultural discourses and practices. The findings of the study are as follows; first, migrated females are systematically excluded in the Korean society degrading the migrated females as ‘females being sold.’ Second, the children from the muticultural families are often treated as social outcasts among their peer group, due to their appearances, ways of talking, unskilled Korean, and school underachievement. Third, it can be a way to minimize the problems arising in multicultural society to accept the mutual cultures, admitting the differences among races, ethnics, and cultures. On the way, the movies reveals the cultural, political implications on the process of presentation and representation of multicultural families. Hence, this study can afterwards serve as a foundation in establishing multucultural policies .