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This study starts to raise a question why we mainly think of globalization as outward globalization, which caused imbalance between inward one and outward one among most Korean sea port cities. The primary purpose of this study was to analyze characteristics, conditions and recommendations for inward globalization of sea port cities in Korea. Immigrants in Korea have increased rapidly during 2005～2011. In 2011, the proportion of immigrants are about 3.0% of total population(more than 1.4 million people. But, all the sea port cities in Korea have strengthened their efforts to accelerate their outward globalization with those in foreign countries for their regional development. This study started to resolve a research question, which caused imbalance between inward globalization and outward globalization among most sea port cities in Korea. The research question is the objective of the study. The hypothesis and empirical results of this study was that the features of inward globalization of sea port cities are mainly determined by many factors, such as civil society(citizenship), self-organization or networking(immigrants), capacity of institution and policy system. The policy implications were largely derived from this results which may improve quantity and quality of inward globalization for successful multicultural society in Korean sea port cities.