ABSTRACT
This chapter documents an important shift in the college choice patterns of Korean-Huaqiaos. Operating as de facto schools in the absence of clear policies governing the education of foreign nationals, the Huaqiaos’ education in Korea from the 1950s through the present focused on education, which was based on the Taiwanese educational model. Korea, with a very small number of minorities, is known as one of the most homogeneous societies in the world. As one of the Newly Industrialized Countries, Korea has experienced an influx of guest workers since the 1980s, yet relatively few became long-term residents. Like national boundaries and citizenship, the majority-minority relationship within national boundaries is subject to change according to the political changes of internal and external factors.
