In recent years, the central and local governments and other agencies are competitively providing multicultural families with various policies and services to support them, as public interest for multicultural policies rise according to the dramatic growth of international marriages.
The factors, such as Korean courses, limited programs, overlapped services between agencies, differences of service infrastructure and usable resources in each region and other reasons, are reducing the effectiveness and satisfaction of the policies for the multicultural families, in spite of the growth in quantity of the policies.
Most of the conventional researches have been focused on the realities of the multicultural families or multicultural children. As a consequence, this study is aimed at discovering the strategies for development of integrated plan to aid for multicultural families by analysing service system that proceeded each policy and program in each region of Gyeongnam province and also by identifying issues for the service provided.
Accordingly, the present condition of multicultural families, the problems of policies to support multicultural families and an improvement scheme for the problems are proposed in this research.
The analyses of this study are general information of the marriage immigrant women, international marriages, program to help marriage immigrants adapt to Korean lives, and organizations and programs to support them and so on.
The references of the study are as follows : A preceded research concerned with multicultural families, Multiculturlal family support center and statistics of Gyeongnam province etc.