The foundation of international cultural exchange in our county is sister city agreements, which are signed between local municipalities and foreign cities. In 1956, Dwight D. Eisenhower, the US President, proposed “People to People Program” to promote international cultural exchanges between cities…
In this paper, I ask for a picture of real life of Christians in the multicultural world of the imperium Romanum during the first two centuries CE. Christians lived in a mostly hostile society but interpreted their situation as a challenge for their lives. I start with three short preliminary remark…
A Study on Relationship between Immigration policy and Integration policy for international marriage immigrants Recently the number of immigrant in Korea is gradually growing. So immigration policy, multicultural policy and integration policy are still under controversy. As a result of these circums…
The purpose of this study was to understand the affect of social avoidance and unrest by cultural adaptation stress such as psychological malaise in mixing with people, the avoidance in social situation, the sense of uneasiness with a stranger and etc. when married woman immigrants are experiencing …
異文化理解の裏側には、誤解が多々存在する。通常、その誤解を解消する ことが異文化理解であると解釈される場合が多い。コミュニケーション理 論などは、それを前提として議論を展開している。だが翻訳の現場から外 交交渉にいたるまで、利害を異にする当事者の間では、共通言語を介し て、その背後に異なる理解が対峙している。そのことなる理解の接点には いかなる現象が発生するのか。それを物理学ならばポテンシャルの相違に 由来する放電現象、化学ならば化学反応として、さらに気象学のモデルに よれば、異なる大気圧の気団が衝突する前線に発生する気象現象として解 読することも可能だろう。本論は、異文化接触の媒介者的地位に…
This study examines the thought and practice of a Scottish Christian missionary to China, Rev. Alexander Williamson (1829-1890), who worked in the second half of the nineteenth century. Born at Falkirk and educated at the University of Glasgow, he decided to dedicate himself to the Christian work in…
The idea of hongikingan (translated as devotion to the welfare of humankind ) is the main theme of the myth of Tan gun, the first founding myth for the Korean nation. The myth is the story of Gods and humans. Ancient Koreans had to be sensitive to the kaleidoscopic phenomena of nature which they wer…
Korean society are becoming more multicultual in recent years due to several changes. Most of all, number of foreign workers and inter-racial marriages have drastically increased in recent years. The government estimates more than 700, 000 foreigners work in Korea. It is also expected that the numbe…
Korean society has encountered sudden changes regarding multicultural issues in recent years. Government was quick enough to take action regarding this issue but the intervention has not been based on public discourse on how we should accept and anticipate the changes concerning the multicultural as…