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The purpose of this paper is to bring out the ideas about how multicultural music education should stand in the 21st century of the world. Due to the various movements of populations and fast dissemination of culture through mass media, the boundary of nation is becoming blurred. At the same time, the globalization of the world requests people to understand other cultures and minds as well as understanding their own culture. Therefore, the understanding of multicultural music is essential in today's Korea. This will lead people to comprehend the multiplicity of human world and to obtain appropriate self-confidence for our own culture. In this situation, we should think about importing musics in other culture and exporting our traditional music culture to the other worlds. Many related research subjects to the multicultural music education have conducted by the research team of Seoul National University of Education. They have evaluated the terminology of world music and the situation of multicultural music education on several countries not only in Korea but also in Japan and United States, Germany and so on. Finally, they have published great teaching material for the development of multicultural music education in Korea. Their contributions on this field have been brilliant and will be continued by other following scholars.