This study was designed to analyze the relationship among multicultural experience, global competence, and multicultural interaction awareness. Multicultural experience were divided in to fornal 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 participatioin 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.