10호 기념 논문 : 한국 내 이주노동자의 음악문화: 비한국계를 중심으로 = Musical Culture of Migrant Workers in Korea

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study is to discuss over musical culture of Migrant workers in Korea on which the previous researches have centered mainly with the points of view by social angle, labour law, and human rights, I have intended to take a total view to Korean culture by means of this research on musical culture of migrant workers after the inflow of around 350 thousand migrant workers since the late of 1980. Most of all, it is significant to pinpoint at musical culture weaved by multinational people so as to reflect a dynamic prospect toward musical culture of Korea and to provide with more various view to migrant workers of Korea. Most of migrant workers in Korea are the minority estranged from Korea society as they have been in 3D types of industry with the illegal social position for last 15years. A sort of migrant worker s clustering together in Korea seems to be formed as a different cultural area inside Korea. First I have examined the present situation and actual states of migrant workers and concomitant cultural shock and adaption in Korea through the cultural(musica1 cultural) view, and presented the three levels as to mutual understanding between Karean and migrant worker`s cultures with gradual progress, conflict(confrontation), coexistence, unificatiodwith equilibrium in Korean culture). The main content of migrant worker s culture consists of musical culture owing to that it is no other than music(especial1y singing a song) as the most actual method through which they can not only console themselves exhausted by a hard labour and life in Korea but also have a symbolic concentration of each communities. Musical culture of migrant workers appears individually according to the peculiarities by countries, religions, and cultures. And simultaneously it would make mutual understanding with Korean culture through Korean pop song being easily opened to the very ground of labour. Such points can be regarded as the gradual three levels, conflict, coexistence, unification contained in mutual communication between Korean and migrant worker`s cultures. What helps the two cultures take possible mutual understanding and exchanges is based on continuous progress by virtue of outcomes from confrontation and resolution in interrelation between conflict and coexistence. With preserving each culture of migrant workers, could various cultural phenomena concomitant to the course of being adapted to Korean language and culture be accumulated for a dormant axis that is not only to make up the own culture of migrant workers in Korea but to be admitted as one of culture coming into being a dynamic Korean culture. Moreover, migrant workers have accompanied in Korea with the children aged for primary school, who seems to be able to naturally accept Korean culture through educational and cultural experience taken in Korea rather than to face up cultural shock comparing with their parents. Therefore the ongoing process to build up the culture of migrant workers in Korea can be claimed to be directly linked to future prospect of the second generation of migrant workers and to be posed as a dynamic interrelation with the culture of Korea.