ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how Korea's socioeconomic achievement exerts pride in itself, but prejudice against the children of international marriage whereby the non-Korean parents are often from developing countries such as the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia. It also examines the types of discrimination against those children. The chapter argues that nouveau-riche nationalism and/or hierarchical nationhood are at the heart of discrimination against new Koreans. The Korean public's awareness of discriminating against others on the basis of a complete irrationality, that is, purely because of their origins from a poor nation, is critical in educating the Korean public and building a healthy multiculturalism in Korea. The chapter also discusses some of the ways honhyeol people are discriminated against at school and beyond. In Korean society, the more prevalent the phenomenon of the negative treatment of honhyeol or the hybrid of bloodline is becoming, the more deeply trapped Amerasian and kosian are in the circle of discrimination at school and work.
