Global citizenship education is critical in Korean civic education as Korea became a multicultural
society. In the result of ICCS 2009, Korean youth showed high score in the knowledge aspect of
global citizenship but low scores in attitude and action of global citizenship. In order to examine
the characteristics of global citizenship, this research is designed to compare the relationship
between global citizenship types and educational environments for global citizenship education
among Korea, New Zealand, and Taiwan. These are the countries that have been focused on
multi-culture integration and education. The research utilized the ICCS 2009 data(Korean 5,254;
New Zealand, 3,979; Taiwan, 5,167). Using cluster analysis on global citizenship, six types of
global citizenship were classified; low-tolerance, offsite deficiency, domestic relations, global leader,
resistance, and international relations. Korean youth occupied more portion of negative types than
other countries.
Compared with other New Zealand and Taiwan youth, Korean youth showed a small difference
between positive and negative types of global citizenship at the civic knowledge, but the
differences between positive and negative types of global citizenship at school openness and
participation were significant. Based on the results of the research, focusing on a balance among
knowledge, attitude, and action in global citizenship education and tightening the policy to support
the disadvantaged were suggested.