This study was designed to analyze the relationship among multicultural experience,
global competence, and multicultural interaction awareness. Multicultural experience were
divided in to formal and informal multicultural experience. Multicultural interaction
awareness consisted of attitudes toward multiculturalism, favour repatriation policies for
migrants, attitudes toward the rights of migrants, and perception of threat from migrants.
Global competence had 3 different aspects, flexibility and initiative, knowledge and
understanding of other cultures, and understanding of globalization and global economics.
Among formal multicultural experiences, taking multicultural classes in colleges and
participation in global programs before colleges showed positive effects on global
competence, and degree of helps in multicultural classes had a positive effect on
multicultural interaction awareness. Among informal multicultural experiences, multicultural
interaction awareness was affected by overseas trips, and global competence by favour
international food. Students with higher attitudes toward multiculturalism and higher favour
repatriation policies for migrants tended to show more global competence.