African migrant workers' views of Korean people and culture

초록

The globalization process changed the context and contents of intercultural communications and mutual understandings. The discourse on Korean culture. The globalization process, however, enables other perspectives, such as those of Southeast Asian and African peoples, to contribute to the discourse on Korean culture and Koreanness. This paper introduces how African migrant workers understand and interpret Korean culture from their perspective. African workers who have more traditional values concerning the community, family, and society provide a different evaluation of Korean culture and society. Korean people have represented Korean culture as upholding Confucian values and a well-preserved community spirit. African migrant workers, however, have diagnosed that Korean society has already lost the traditional values of the community in many social aspects. In addition, their different view on Korean culture forces us to reconsider the given discourse on Koreanness and the context of cross-cultural understanding.

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