부산지역 이주민 현황과 이주민선교의 과제

Current Situation of Immigrants and Tasks for Immigrants Mission in Busan Area -Focused on Marriage-related Immigrant Woman/Multicultural Family

Over 1.1 million foreigners live in South Korea now. The number of marriage-related immigrants is 125,673 and that of children of multicultural family is 107,689. These facts are brand new ones during the last five thousands year history of Korea. Such a change challenges Korean people and Christians to rethink about their identity. This article aims at describing the current situation of immigrants, especially marriage-related immigrant women and multicultural family, identifying tasks for immigrant mission in Busan area and searching for immigrant theology. Methodologies used in the article are: literature study, interview with specialists in immigrant mission, social biography of marriage-related immigrant woman/multicultural family, and missiology of encounter with other. In Busan there are four church/mission center/Christian NGO participating in the immigrant mission in 2009. They are the Immigrant Culture Center, the Busan Gangseo Community Welfare Center of YWCA, the Busan Jingu Community Welfare Center of YWCA, and Hanul Church. The selection of interviewees for social biography of multicultural family was suggested by four centers/church mentioned above. Their nationalities and genders are four Vietnamese women, three Peruvian women, two Philippin women, two Korean women, one Chinese woman, one Indonesian woman, and three Korean man. The results of the social biography of multicultural family are: first of all, recovery of 'normality' of the multicultural family, for the family has been represented by the mass media as 'abnormal' one with family violence: secondly, Christian faith contribute for them to accommodate to Korean culture and to overcome conflicts between husband and wife of multicultural family: thirdly, the international marriage initiated by commercial agency is blamed as money- exchange-marriage but the reality of such a family life is similar to that of a marriage arranged by a go-between: lastly, marriage-related immigrant women are faster learners of Korean language and culture than migrant workers. Tasks for immigrant mission are to serve them with love of God, to strengthen the multicultural family by overcoming cultural conflicts, to support for their children education, to establish multicultural faith community, to develop a Bible study program appropriate for multicultural family, to suggest education programs for Korean Christians and Korean citizens, and to prevent from religious conflicts through peace education among religious groups.