Corresponding Author:
Mi A Shin ,Tel: +82-61-450-1808, Fax: +82-61-450-1801 , Email: maisin@chodang.ac.kr
Received: November 23, 2011; Revised: December 7, 2011 Accepted: February 5, 2012.
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study is to investigate the recognition of internatonal marriage immigrants among college students. It is also aimed to provide a positive insight on international marriage immigrants of college students. This study was used as a descriptive research design. Participants of this study were 468 college students from South Jeollanam Province. Descriptive statistics by using SPSS program(version 12.0) were used for the analysis of the collected data. Important findings were as follows: The mean recognition of the international marriage immigrants was nearer to the moderate level. The recognition of the international marriage immigrants was significantly influenced by korean characteristics of homogeneous nation which shows the importance of blood relationship. Thus it was found out that when considering how to raise the recognition of international marriage immigrants positively, both the characteristics of homogeneous nation and blood relationship are important factors to consider.