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Nowadays, it is considered that one of the most prominent social phenomena in Korea is the rapid pace of change toward a multi-cultural society. There are more than 130 million foreigners including migrant workers and marital immigrants in Korea. This trend has led Korean society to promote increased understanding of multi-cultural society. The Framework Act on Treatment of Foreigners Residing in the Republic of Korea provides that "The state and local governments shall endeavor to take measures such as education, publicity, and correction of unreasonable institutions, etc. to ensure that Koreans and foreigners in Korea understand and respect each other's history, culture and institution (Article 18)". On the other hand, Korean people have been rebellious towards the potential that the occurrence of crime by foreigners will be on the rise. In this respect, it seems that Korea shares lots of similarities with France in many ways. France has already experienced such a period of transitional arrangement to a multi-cultural society prior to Korea and has been supporting the assimilation policy since there were riots by the second generation of Muslim immigration in 2005. This can give us a direction of immigration policy because both of the countries have a lot of similarities. As France did, Korea may not be able to avoid crime committed by young people who have multi-cultural background. France carried out an integrated policy focused on the “assimilation". As a result, the conflict between French locals and the immigrants was cumulative and erupted as a form of riot in the end. The current condition in Korea is similar to the French's situation in 2005 in many aspects. While Korea has considered “Single-nationalism" as an absolute value, “Republicanism" in France. For this reason, the need to learn a lesson from the French riot about what is predicted in our society is sufficient. However, statistically, the immigrant crime rate is lower than the local one in Korea, so there is little possibility that such a large-scale riot as the French one will occur soon. Nevertheless, if the conflict between the locals and immigrants develops as the immigrants' children grow up, nobody can say that Korea is free from a riot by the immigrants. Therefore, through the revision of Framework Act on Treatment of Foreigners Residing in the Republic of Korea, we need to prevent a riot with proper precautions and should make the immigrants and local Koreans able to live together with harmony.
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Immigrant, Immigrant Crime, French Riot, Riot, Framework Act on Treatment of Foreigners Residing in the Republic of Korea
