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Korean society has failed to resolve discriminations and prejudices against children from multicultural families in spite of their rising numbers since they are considered to be "wrong" instead of "different" by children from Korean families. The solution of such problems requires perceptual changes to understand each other as well as policy approaches. It is particularly important to help children develop multicultural sensibility when they have no rejection to other cultures. This study examined the fairy tale storytelling plans for the Kang Gam-chan story, one of the Tales about Marriage between Man and Animal with the elements of child birth and growth, from that perspective. The study first interpreted his birth and growth process according to Marriage between Man and Animal and then his hardship and extraordinary abilities demonstrated in the process in the story in a way that would fit the multicultural era. Based on those findings, the investigator proposed a direction for the storytelling of his story into a fairy tale for young children. One of the suggestions was to replace the part where his father had physical relations with 100 women with a new one where his father formed a marital relationship with a fairy banished from the Heaven in an effort to resolve the ethical issues in the story. The study maintained that the storytelling should take a direction toward emphasizing the abilities of Kang Gam-chan that was born out of Marriage between Man and Animal in order to stress the special nature of difference. The study also proposed the rewriting of the story to secure probability in the stage of resolving conflicts and problems and heighten suspense. The storytelling of an Tales about Marriage between Man and Animal into a fairy tale is a job of exploring the multicultural elements inherent in stories and a scheme to help children from multicultural families understand and accept their identity in a positive manner. Such discussions and storytelling attempts will work to have the heritage of Korean story culture respond to social changes and grant a new force of life to it.