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The purpose of this research is to propose a method for multilingual education by examining the bilingual environment of marriage migrants and what they require based on the statements of six Chinese marriage migrants. Researchers collected data from November 2017 to January 2018 and analyzed the results by applying the case study method. The results of this study show that Chinese marriage migrants wish to pursue bilingual education on their children but confront several problems as follows: First, they are worried that the Chinese language will affect the development of the Korean language, resulting in a lack of sociality which will lead to discrimination within their local community. Also, a negative perception of their spouse or parents-in-law also prevented marriage migrants from teaching their children Chinese. Second, bilingual education of marriage migrants’ children could not be implemented due to a lack of education knowledge of marriage migrants and their limited economic conditions. Furthermore, the foundation of support for marriage migrants turned out to be weak while their self-esteem was also low, which lead to the absence of bilingual education. Such research results prove that bilingual education should be implemented on not only multicultural children, but to students as a whole and should also include their parents as well.