'在外同胞法' 개정을 둘러싼 談論分析

The Discourse Analysis about 'the Overseas Korean Act' on Korean Chinese

This article aims to examine issues on 'the Act on the Immigration and Legal Status of Overseas Koreans' and its actual practice. For it, I focus on two variables; the emotional and the institutional, which need to be considered in the process of making national policies. I review two main arguments around the definition of who in Korean in the Act and the invitation of foreign migrant workers including overseas Koreans to the Korean society. By the discourse analysis, First, I find that while the views of the government and civil activists tend to be converged around 'universalism' or 'nationalism', scholars tend to be plural. Second, I find that a fundamental problem of the national policy, which the government down not apparently hold its position between 'universalism' and 'nationalism' in making and implementing national policies concerning overseas Koreans, I conclude then that if the government puts 'nationalism'-oriented policy into operation, it need to define what the purpose of the Act is and who Koreans are with the consideration of creolization and diplomatic issues as well.