A Study on Effects of Social Distance of Multi-cultural Persons in the Korean Society upon Xenophobia Risk Factors

These days, Korean society has made change to be multi-racial and multi-cultural society with variety at rapid increase of married immigrants, foreign labor and foreign students studying in Korea. Internationalization in Korean society opened to be expanded and made possible to move population in the world. It made Korean society changed and affected the establishment of multi-cultural society during short time. The study has suggested based on problems: First, the study had sampling and limitation on survey areas that should be solved. The subject should be expanded from college students to various kinds of persons. Second, test tools shall be developed to conduct test of fixed ideas, preference, social distance and cultural sensitivity of multi-cultural groups. Third, studies shall be made to examine factors having influence upon social distance. Fourth, the study had limitation on expressions of adjective phrases in subjective emotion from the questions at collection of materials.