Tasks of Educational Policies for Overseas Chinese Living in Korea to Realize Multicultural Education

This study suggests directions and tasks of educational policies for Overseas Chinese to realize multicultural education in Korea. Overseas Chinese have been residing in Korea for over 100 years, and they are permanent residents who plan to continuously live here. Most of their children have feelings and cultural experience as Koreans. Schools for Chinese children, however, have recently been faced with problems of establishment of identity, reorganization of educational courses, and decrease of students and thus have requested active support from the Korean government. The Korean government should solve the following problems of Chinese schools to prepare the foundation for a multicultural education that cultivates citizens with diverse cultural backgrounds. First, the political directions of education for Overseas Chinese should be re-established from a viewpoint of multicultural education. Second, a strategy to harmonize the autonomy of Chinese schools and the Korean government’s right to supervise education should be developed. Third, equality with other foreign schools should be established.