With the number of foreigners living in Korea exceeding more than a million, Korea entered the multicultural era. The term 'multi-culture' was first used in the wake of a great influx of foreign workers and marriage-based migrant women in the early 19...
With the number of foreigners living in Korea exceeding more than a million, Korea entered the multicultural era. The term 'multi-culture' was first used in the wake of a great influx of foreign workers and marriage-based migrant women in the early 1990s.
However, the word 'multi-culture,' connoting the mutual recognition and respect towards the values and cultures individuals in various cultures and societies have, has rather been used as a concept against human rights, causing racial discrimination and denoting economic difficulties. Morever, this is spread and reinforced by the mass-media.
Hence, this study analyzes the relation between the multicultural discourse and the media in Korean society by choosing a KBS TV show "Love in Asia," the most typical show to represent multi-culture, as the analysis target to figure out why this abnormal discourse on multi-culture was formed in Korea and what the role of mass-media was in the process.
While the existing 'multi-culture' related studies on the mass-media were just the content analysis of the show, this study is further more meaningful in terms of the analysis on the correlation of multicultural policies in Korean society with the media and makes findings more objective by comparing differences between many multi-culture-related programs.
As a result, I could get to know that nation-oriented multicultural policies, urgently arranged in the wake of a surge in the number of migrant workers and international marriages, assumed an aspect of strengthening heterogeneity in our society with existing strong nationalism, rather than admitting cultural diversity, compelling assimilation and male-centric, old-fashioned images of women like respecting parents-in-law and helping her husband by teaching Korean, recipes and proprieties. So, the study found the media, reconstructing the social reality as it is, lumps together and stereotypes 'multi-culture' as a target of dispensation, not as an individual subject with diverse cultures in reappearance, putting Korea in superior position and subsuming it in hierarchy.
Therefore, this study discovered there's a clear correlation between multicultural policies by countries and the 'multicultural' discourse reemerged by the mass-media and hence it's quite worthy this presented the direction so that multiculturalism can be properly established in Korean society.
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