The purpose of this study is to find out why married migrant women who married a Korean man and moved to Korea about the numerous experiences of settling in Korean society, raising children, how they solved various problems in the process, and how they needed help. To this end, seven married migrant women with various nationalities living in Jeollabuk-do were selected as research participants and conducted in-depth interviews with children of kindergarten or higher who have been married and migrated to Korea for more than five years.
In this study, in-depth interviews were conducted according to the narrative inquiry process proposed by Clandinin and Connelly (2000), and the analysis was conducted through Amedeo Giorgi's phenomenological approach.
The main results obtained through this study are as follows.
First, they did not prepare anything because they did not think of international marriage from the beginning. Since they started living in Korea at the same time as they got married without being prepared, they had to face various difficulties, quarreled and compromised to solve the difficulties, and were looking for solutions in their own way.
Second, in Korean culture, married migrant women were worried about the discrimination and prejudice their children would receive from them, but they hoped that their children would overcome well because it was a problem that they could not solve on their own.
Third, married migrant women raised children in Korea and received various support from Korean society. Most of them were satisfied with the support of Korean society, but in reality, they took what was needed and boldly abandoned what was not needed.
Fourth, they were trying on their own to live as married migrant women in Korean society. They wanted to be Korean rather than multicultural people who settled and lived in Korea, and they were constantly trying to become Korean.
Fifth, the study participants presented various opinions on what they should prepare for living as marriage migrant women in Korea and what they should support in Korean society. As such, marriage migrant women will make it much easier to settle in Korea and raise children when they continue to work hard to establish themselves as a member of Korean society and help them with support supported by Korean society.
Based on the above research contents, the following follow-up studies are presented.
First, this study limited the number of study participants to married migrant women who have settled in Korea for more than 5 years. However, the average settlement period of the study participants sampled was more than 16 years, and the concept of multicultural or marriage migrant women was generally established when they first settled in Korea, so from a current point of view, there was a limit to generalization to all marriage migrant women's experiences. Therefore, in the follow-up study, the word multiculturalism and marriage immigrant women become common in Korean society, and it is hoped that two types of comparative analysis studies will be conducted, which have settled in Korean society with full support from the beginning.
Second, most of the study participants made economically relaxed assumptions in Korean society, so their main interest was focused on the educational part of their children. As a result, it could not even deal with the experiences of marriage migrant women who were responsible for raising children in financially difficult families. In the follow-up study, we hope to look into the experiences of marriage immigrant women who are financially difficult to settle in Korea and raise their children.