Abstract

This study is aimed at examining problems in the supportive networks according to the policy for expanding the attraction of foreign students, which has been so far promoted, and proposing the task for improving the network to support foreign students, in order to develop into a multicultural society. To this end, the first step was to examine social positions of foreign students in the Korean multicultural society. In other words, it was found that the attracting of foreign students had a social meaning as a task to strengthen international competitiveness of colleges of the nation, beyond the supplying of freshmen to colleges and guarantee social changes in the labor market and the demographic structure. Next, there also were problems of the foreign student-related policies promoted by the Korean government and the following network for supporting foreign students that they were focused on symptomatic prescriptions, they had a one-sided adaptation method and they were concentrated on the timing of residence. Through this, the study suggested three tasks of the network for supporting foreign students, in order to realize a desirable multicultural society. First, a network considering the development into a multicultural society to share with foreign students should be established. Second, the network should be established in the perspective of mutual communication with foreign students. Third, the network should be established in a way to secure long-term continuity considering the life of foreign students after studying in Korea.