스페인어권 화자를 위한 한국문화교육의 현황과 과제

The Current Status and the Future Task of Providing Korean Culture Education for Spanish-speaking People

The purpose of this article is to describe the current situation of Korean culture education in the Spanish-speaking world and to suggest some ideas for its future development. This article does not examine the cultural differences between Korean speakers and Spanish speakers from the anthropological point of view, but the importance of the cultural differences must be recognized and stressed. The aim of Korean culture education is to show how the Korean cultures settles down in a general framework through the reflection of likenesses and differrences between Korean culture and the other culture. In this sence, cultural relativism is very important in this globalized world. In this article, the author explains that the foreign students have an interest in knowing not only the positive things about Korean culture but also the negative facets. The teacher should never communicate a sense of cultural superiority over the others. He/She should interprete the Korean culture from a non-occidental point of view and let the students compare two cultures from their own point of view. In this globalized world, the students receive all kinds of information through innumerable and various ways. The successful Korean culture class has to be open-minded to hear the students' interpretations about Korean culture from their own cultural code.