Since 2000, domestic corporations have focused on resolving the economic crisis, and exploring
overseas markets and expanding the scope through enhancement of international competitive power, and
because of increase of enterprise activities frequently crossing the frontier, the importance of human
resources development and management of expatriates, but studies for this are insufficient. Therefore, this
study is to offer an opportunity to trigger a follow-up study related to expatriates available in
administration of enterprise in this nation in the future through an analytical study on research trends
focusing on research topic of accessible theses in a thesis area of domestic and foreign academic journals
in Research Information Sharing Service(RISS) offered by Korea Education and Research Information
Service(KERIS) of research papers related to expatriates. As a result of analysis, in case of this nation, 41
research papers were run in 29 academic journals from 2000 to 2016, and in case of foreign countries,
251 research papers were run in 126 academic journals. To analyze research topic, 18 research topics of
work area and non-work area were used as an analytical framework, and both domestic and foreign
studies related to expatriates ran adaptation most as a research topic. However, in case of foreign
countries, various topics were studied, but in case of this nation, five research topics of 18 research
topics were not studied, and studies on non-work area in this nation are relatively less than research
papers run in foreign academic journals. Based on these analytical results, this study suggested a
conclusion that in this nation, it is necessary to attempt to study topics highly related to adaptation of
expatriates variously, and the necessity of an empirical study considering diversity of research topics and
a study including non-work area should be raised once more.