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Having been called a single-race nation and the white-clad folk, Korean people were very proud of being a homogeneous ethnic group, so in Korea, multi-cultural problems have not been a issue of much interest so far. However, due to rapid industrialization and an influx of foreign population, traditional single-race thought has been attenuated and Korea has now obviously become a multi-cultural society. The sudden inflow of foreign workers and international marriages in particular have not only accelerated the transition into a multi-cultural nation, but also Korean society, maintaining over 1,000,000 foreigners accounting for 1/40 of the whole Korean population, is experiencing multi-cultural problems which civilized countries have already faced in the process of industrialization.
In regards to this, the writer felt a strong necessity to refer to how the Israelietes and the Bible reflect on this matter and how they treat foreigners in their land, in order to approach and to solve multi-cultural problems emerging in Korean society more effectively, as the writer thought that the principle and method of the Bible is the most successful way of application on multi-cultural issues.
Amazingly, in the Bible, the same rights and accountabilities are given by law for all foreigners dwelling in Israel land, and also special care for foreigners is elucidated clearly in their law and, in fact, these codes were being performed in their lives systematically.
Of course, foreigners were excluded in certain activities and aspects, such as not being eligible for the throne, Israelites could take interest from foreigners, foreigners were not able to eat sacred food, and Israelites could not marry foreigners who worshipped idols. However, this was not to discriminate the foreigners, but was a special way of protection to keep their holiness and piety.
On the contrary to this in nearly all aspects, the same rules and rights were applied to all foreigners by law, that is, same status and same rights, same application of restitution, same application of lawsuit, sustaining equality on lawsuit, same application and same care on social marginated people, same application on rest and holidays, and same application on social sharing, same application on ritual and religious events, application on communal life as holy people, same application on learning the Bible, same application on refugee cities, same application on concluding covenant, and so on.
With this, as far as the writer is concerned, the principal, thoughts, and methods of the Bible for caring and securing foreigners itself is the clearest way of application to solve multi-cultural problems in Korean society. I am very sure that as long as we accept, apply, and practice these biblical perspectives in Korea, we will be able to successfully and effectively cope with emerging problems related to multi-cultural issues.

한국어

본 연구는 현재 한국사회에서 중요한 사회문제로 대두되고 있는 다문화가정에 대한 접근으로서 일차적으로 한국교회가 이들에 대하여 어떻게 구체적으로 접근할 것인가에 대한 신학적, 철학적 준거틀을 마련하는 데 그 목적이 있다. 성공적인 다문화가정과 다문화 사회의 정착은 분명한 신학적 근거를 마련해야 하기 때문에 본 연구는 성서에서 다문화에 대하여 어떻게 이해하며 이스라엘 사회는 도적적인 측면에서, 그리고 법률적 관점에서 구체적으로 어떻게 그들에게 접근하고 있는가를 살펴보고 이를 어떻게 다문화 문제가 대두되고 있는 한국사회에 적용할 것인가를 고찰하였다.