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This paper shows that the formation process of the new minority group of foreign migrant workers. South Korea has moved along this well-traveled road, sending its citizens abroad for centuries, but since late-1980s taking in increasing numbers of immigrants. The inflow of migrant workers challenges to an ethnically homogeneous Korean society ― they have different national backgrounds, religious features, and racial backgrounds. Some migrant workers have suffered severe discriminations. Finally, they have got a group consciousness of “foreign migrant workers” as a new minority group in Korea. This paper also presents a sociological explanation of foreign migrant workers’ discrimination with five factors: chauvinism, racism, xenophobia, hierarchical nationhood, and hierarchical concept of occupation.