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The objects of multicultural education which are migrant worker, marriage migrant women, refugees from North Korea and so forth were migrated from their origin and are staying in new society. Homeland means not a simple space to be grown up but a place where someone has formed his identity. Individuals learn new cultures through experiences and identity in new settings once they settle down in new community. Nevertheless, current approach to multicultural education has not considered their prior experiences, context and identities. Multicultural Education considers these people as learners whose state are zero. According to this perspective, learners should build new cultural things. Educational discourses related to memory have been currently started with regard to collective memory and cultural memory. Memory has been utilized as original resources and in many academic fields, archiving work which is to collect and to research historic memories of common people has conducted. However, collecting knowledge on certain culture is a different dimension with considering learner’s cultural background. In this study, for multicultural education, we put emphasis on learner’s own cultural memory rather than their memories about Korean culture in the context of education for other culture understanding. Especially, this study is to explore the nostalgia of learner and possibility in cultural education. Nostalgia is strong emotion and memory toward homeland for these learners. Current research found that nostalgia is reflection and constituent of the present beyond memory on the past. It means it is a production of the future. Cultural education through nostalgia is important because people are able to identify learner’s needs and demands as well as cross-cultural approach. This perspective provides authentic multicultural education. That is, their own experience would not be excluded and ignored in the settings. To realize cultural education, archive on nostalgia, homeland, emotion and memory of learners has to be produced. Now, it is time to focus on nostalgia and memory of individuals.