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In an unfamiliar cultural environment, parents in multicultural families have many difficulties in raising children and they depend on educating their children to daycare center. Through this research, Chinese mothers who raise children in South Korea were interviewed about their experiences in using daycare center to understand their current situation and to support requirements. Based on the results, this study will provide basic information for effective education of young children from Chinese multicultural families in South Korea. For the purpose, five Chinese mothers were participated in the interview. The interview was conducted in Chinese and then translated in Korean. By using the method of continuous comparison, the collected data were encoded and classified. Through the process, two themes and seven sub-themes were drawn. Results of this study are as follows. First, Chinese mothers considered the following factors in the process of choosing daycare center: the quality of teaching, the cost, the distance from home and the center environment. Chinese mothers mentioned that, by sending their children to daycare center, their burden of child care was reduced and their children showed positive changes. However, Chinese mothers were uncomfortable in high rate of teachers’ turnover and a limited space of daycare center. Also, they mentioned about the differences between Korean and Chinese daycare center in terms of preschool curriculum and cost. Second, Chinese mothers wanted the daycare center to teach bilingual language and knowledge for school readiness to be well prepared for primary school. In addition, Chinese mothers requested daycare center to provide flexible opening and closing time by considering parent's work and rest time. Also, they asked for the effective parent education to empower the parent role. Based on the results, implications were suggested to provide educational support for young children from Chinese multicultural families and to support child rearing and adaptation in different environment for their parents.