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Multicultural education aims to realize ‘Citizenship Education in a Global Age’ premised on the multicultural society. There is a criticism, however, that Korea is not to be considered a multicultural society since it does not constitute a multiethnic society in a strict sense. Accordingly, multicultural education cannot but be ideological as well since it borrows ideas and theories intactly from the West, whose situation is quite different from ours. Given the fact, however, that the Muslims are increasing, the assertion of Korea‘s multiculturalism being ideological is not appropriate. The Muslims come from a number of different countries and are yet too small in number to form an ethnic society. However, they are beginning to form a kind of cultural group, centering around the Islam. Accordingly, multicultural education needs to be rather more concrete and realistic beyond ideology. Multireligion has been of trivial issue since it has coexisted throughout our history. With Christianity introduced into Korea in modern times, there is no denying that there have existed exclusive conflicts between religions in terms of religious culture in Korea. This is not irrelevant to the exclusive attitude of our society toward the Muslim immigrants who were brought into Korea recently. This attitude is mainly due to both the Christian fundamentalism and Orientalism lurking in our heart. It is natural that tolerant coexistence be pursued so as to overcome this, but the problem is the method. Neither a specific religion's inclusivism nor relativism, which notes that both this and that may be right, serves as a solution. Here we need pluralistic attitude, through which we can alleviate conflicting situations dialectically and grope for ‘Horizontverschmelzung’ It will be made possible through multi-cultural education of coincidentia oppositorum, which is based on “dialogue of passing over and coming back.”