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A Study on the Strategies for Successful Implementation of Local Policing in Multi-cultural Society of Korea Huh, Yong-Hoon Korea is recently changing quickly to a multi-race and multi-cultural society as the numbers of incoming foreign workers and international marriage are rapidly increasing. As a byproduct of this change, the number of crimes committed by foreigners also has been increasing. Under this context, this study is to explore the realities of local policing for crime prevention in Korea multi-cultural society, and to provide policy strategies for successful implementation of local policing for crime prevention. Through library studies and interviews with police officers, this study suggested the following five strategies: 1) to expand neighborhood-oriented policing against foreign community for crime prevention 2)to reinforce problem solving-oriented policing to solve various problems in foreign community 3) to strengthen police governance for sustainable joint efforts among the police, local government, public and private agencies, and members of community 4) to establish the education training program for cultivating men of talent to handle the multi-cultural society problems 5) to enlarge community participation in identifying and setting priorities of community problems, and so on.