I examined the multicultural society, multiculturalism, the reality of multicultural family and the present condition support policy for multicultural family. In detail, I studied the reality of preparation of our community toward multicultural society and policy for social intergration and right promotion of immigrants, then gained policy implications through foreign cases which experienced the multicultural society earlier then Korea. Furthermore, I found out the way to overcome the limitations of existing legal/political system has and to improve effectiveness in order to progress for out society to the true multicultural society..
If Korea is to adopt multicultural policy practically, beyond just acknowledging and tolerating the multicultural society in reality, then the principle of multiculturalism and the effect that has on the Korean ethnic identity have to be discussed both theoretically and practically, then the direction of multiculturalism policy has to be decided.
The interest toward multicultural family has to be mainly shown not by government but by multicultural families themselves, and in the case of multicultural family, not only individual effort of the contracting parties in a marriage, but also social understanding and support for right union of two different society and culture are essential. Especially, change in basic attitude is required for Korean society and Koreans to have mature awareness having a fair viewpoint toward 'difference'.
The problem of support policy for multicultural family are first, the insufficience in policy of department in charge which chimes in well with the object, Second, the need for customized administration support service police and third, overlapped and insufficient fund support.
To improve the support policy for multicultural families, I suggested as follows; firstly, We have to establish a department in charge which is combined for systematic, integral national support and let it be responsible with the work, and establish a system of sharing responsibility and cooperation of the central and the local government therefore lower the possibility for similar/overlapped support among departments. Secondly, customized support policy which is differentiated by focusing on consumers and the development and the supply of various support enterprises are needed.
Some of these measures are undergoing, and some are just being planned, and still others are being tried for demonstration. The time has come for rearranging and readjusting multicultural families and this needs to be examined for improving and developing to be the effective and right policy to our society, considering the local characteristics and the desire/problem of multicultural families.
Multicultural family is the precious resource to our society and their second generation is members of our society who are to perform their duty to go to military and pay their taxes as the center of our society. The central and local government need to build institutional system through cooperation, and for this I expect the way to improve suggested in this research be of great help.
Recently the awareness toward multicultural society is spreading, therefore the support policy for multicultural society has to be extended from focusing on only the multicultural families to including foreign workers and North Korean detectors.