@article{oai:toyoeiwa.repo.nii.ac.jp:00000439,
 author = {HARUKI, Ikumi and 春木, 育美},
 journal = {東洋英和大学院紀要, The Journal of the Graduate School of Toyo Eiwa University},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {South Korea, experiencing a rapidly declining birthrate and aging population, has in recent years adopted proactive policies to open its doors to foreigners through marriage and labor. If Japan continues with its adhoc policy on foreigners followed until now, the country may well fall behind South Korea, a country hammering out foreigner-friendly policies in rapid-fire succession. If South Korea further pulls down legal barriers to hiring foreign care workers in the country, these foreigners may give up going to Japan and choose Korea instead. South Korea introduced a “work permit system” in 2004 to accept unskilled foreign laborers as regular workers under government supervision. A “visiting work system” was implemented in 2007 as an incentive to expand the jobs that ethnic-Korean foreigners (those from China and the former Soviet Union) can take. Meanwhile, the number of international marriages arranged by matchmaking companies has climbed quickly since 2000 due to the difficulty South Koreans have finding marriage partners in farming and fishing villages and among the urban lower class. The South Korean government is boldly taking the initiative by creating laws and formulating a barrage of policies on settlement assistance and social integration for foreigners. As of now, South Korean policy on foreigners is not an “immigration” policy meant to gain permanent residents. Instead, the focus is on securing a manual labor force in the short-term. Therefore, the number of lawfully settled foreign workers is not rising. Yet more than “multicultural coexistence,” the goal of these foreign resident policies contains a strong element of assimilation that unilaterally demands conformity with South Korean society. The children of international couples are expected to build bridges between the countries of their fathers and mothers, and they are receiving assistance in the form of bilingual education, scholarships and the like with the help of the government and privately run institutions. In terms of “economic rationale,”the children of international couples are seen as “useful” persons for a globalizing South Korea. This is how South Korea is very systematically adopting generous social assistance policies for certain foreigners. However, these recent South Korean policies on foreign residents are based on national selfinterest and push immigrants toward assimilation into South Korean society, a far cry from coexistence with foreigners or the creation of a multicultural society. I argue that Japan should use South Korea’s example as food for thought when considering its own immigration policy in the future.},
 pages = {17--27},
 title = {日本と韓国における外国人政策と多文化共生},
 volume = {10},
 year = {2014},
 yomi = {ハルキ, イクミ}
}