ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses why, despite ongoing efforts to internationalize, Korean universities have not embraced a more inclusive framework for addressing the opportunities and challenges associated with greater student diversity. Using a number of key diversity indicators adapted from the extant literature to measure the extent of diversity initiatives at Korean universities, it shows that efforts to promote diversity tend to remain at the "structural" level, without expanding to "educational" or "intercultural" spheres of diversity. Even though Korea has been promoting multiculturalism over the last decade, it tends to be assimilationist, targeting foreign brides and their "half-Korean" children, not migrant labor, let alone skilled foreign labor, including foreign students. The chapter suggests that "cultural diversity" may be a better framework than "multiculturalism" in the Korean context in attracting foreign skilled labor. It concludes by discussing some implications for Japan's internationalization of higher education given its similar challenges.
