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This study investigated the content and methods of teaching Korean Culture Education to immigrants in order to stabilize and integrate them into multicultural Korean society. As Korea becomes a multicultural society, due to language and cultural differences, immigrants in Korea face lots of difficulties and conflicts to adapt themselves into Korean society, It is urgent to build up an ideological foundation in order for the society to overcome these conflicts and to integrate all of them into the multicultural Korean society. In this study, we propose a interculturalism as a principle of social integration. Interculturalism disintegrates superiority of power inherent in diversity and puts emphasis on mutual respect and solidarity. In this study, first, we suggests ‘interactivity’ and ‘individuality’ as the characteristics of interculturalism. Based on these characteristics, we analyzed the cultural aspects , the textbooks of social integration program, for both beginner (1,2) and intermediate (1,2) levels. We reviewed these textbook to find out whether they are appropriate for the social integration of the Koreans and immigrants. Based on the results, we suggest methods to enhance social integration. (Honam Univwesity)