Comparative Study on Multiethnic and Multicultural Policy of Korea and Kazakhstan

Abstract

The main purpose of this article is to compare to multicultural, multiethnic policy of Korea and Kazakhstan. When it comes to Korea, various ministries take charge of making multicultural policies. In Kazakhstan, Assembly of People of Kazakhstan (APK) is responsible to making multiethnic policies. These two countries show differences in the process of forming multicultural society in history and present time, and in their policies. However, they also have common features that they are unitary system states and using a mainstream culture and language as a main content of the policy.