“Ruth and Marriage Migrant Women in Korea”

Korea now became a multicultural and multiracial society since 1990s when migrants from all over the countries of Asia flowed into the nation. Population of migrants in Korea is mainly consisted of foreign workers and women of international marriage. This paper reads the book of Ruth in light of migrant women of modern Korea. An exegetical examination of the book that explores the mistreatment of the natives against the foreigners by means of silence will alert modern Koreans, who have been living in such a long period of uni-racial country, that the silence can be a form of violence to exclude or ignore someone’s presence. Then the biblical reading will call them to embrace migrants as their neighbors in the community.