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For the first time in the history of Korea, the number of foreigners residing in the country has exceeded one million. With the ever-increasing number of international marriages, foreign workers and foreign students, the Korean society has been rapidly becoming multicultural. The objective of this p...

For the first time in the history of Korea, the number of foreigners residing in the country has exceeded one million. With the ever-increasing number of international marriages, foreign workers and foreign students, the Korean society has been rapidly becoming multicultural. The objective of this paper is to explore the possibility of methodologically applying phenomenology to the theory of multicultural counseling. Phenomenology can secure a certain place for itself in the theory of multicultural counseling because of its potential to provide methods effective at revealing a client’s life experience and her/his attitude toward the culture in which she/he has lived. Contemporary counse ling has been dominated by three schools of psychoanalysis, cognitive-behaviorism, and humanistic- existentialism. These three schools have been basically influenced by the Western individualistic tradition emphasizing the subjectivity and the rationality. Despite their grip on contemporary theories of counseling, they have limitations in helping understand a particular experience of minority in the society. The theory of multicultural counseling criticizes contemporary theories of counseling for giving short shrift to ethnic or racial minorities. From the perspective of multicultural counseling, counseling means understanding of client’s individual life, which is closely connected with cultural background. For the sake of an effective counseling counselors have to remove their prejudices about other cultures. To remove prejudices about other cultures, counselors need to practice the method of phenomenological reduction. Here emerges a meeting point between the theory of multicultural counseling and phenomenology. A phenomenological method is very helpful in leading multicultural counselors to go beyond learning other cultures toward exploring a client’s world of experience just as it is. According to the phenomenological method for returning to everyday experience, counselors should graduate from the temptation to pass judgments on culture, something common in the natural attitude, and should graduate immediately into world of experience in order to reveal the world as it is.

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