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Unification first and foremost establish a new national community that entirely overcome an oppositive division system surrounding politics, economy, society, one´s sense of values, and life modes. Therefore unification is a great historical task and a monumental event that create the second national building. For this unification to occur, we have to seek solution to unite the opposite ideology, political-economic system, power structure in North-South Korea and that transcend the heterogeneous culture index, values, and life style in bilateral societies. In achieving this unification, education for the unification of North-South Korea can play an important role that closes a gap of culture on both sides and that makes an effort to integrate a dissimilar life-world. Especially, the orientations in unification education that mutually try to recognize and respect cultural heterogeneity between North and South Korea and that reciprocally can accept each other's merit will bring forth a necessity of a multicultural educational approach to unification education. In this paper, therefore, I would explore multicultural education in the United States and its implications of the education for unification in the Korean Peninsula.