South Koreans Perception of International Marriage

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is to show the perception of the South Korean viewpoint of international marriage and to demonstrate how South Korea is changing and opening to the new cultures, also, how globalization affects the homogeneous culture and society like South Korean. Because of the Korean wave, foreigners, start to have more interested in Korean culture and society. Korean culture is also attractive to foreigners. Changes are happening rapidly between other countries and Korea.

The development task is to build an understanding bridge between cultures and the differences in them. Conflictions usually comes from a mismatch with expectation, so it is crucial to understand Korean and foreigner’s expectation about international marriage before integrating international marriage couples into Korean society.

As a method, this thesis has used the interview with five South Koreans who are in a relationship with a foreigner or are married to them. The other method used in this thesis is the survey made in English. Participants of this survey are Koreans. The main result of this thesis is to show how open South Koreans are to international marriage and how much difference can really affect in the international marriage perspective.