The purpose of this study is to explore the direction and program development of early childhood
pre-service teacher education reflecting the characteristics of them by examining the relationship
between early childhood preservice teacher's cultural orientation and multicultural sensitivity. For this
purpose, 216 early childhood pre-service teachers were surveyed on cultural orientation and
multicultural sensitivity. The results of the analysis are as follows. First, early childhood pre-service
teachers showed the highest tendency toward horizontal collectivism. Second, in the correlation
between cultural orientation and multicultural sensitivity, vertical individualism showed a significant
negative correlation with respect to cultural differences, and showed a negative relationship with other
multicultural sensitivity subscales except interaction self-efficacy. As a result of analysis, horizontal
individualism which emphasizes equality, autonomy and personality appeared as the most important
variable predicting multicultural susceptibility. Therefore, it is necessary to develop and apply
multicultural sensitivity enhancement program for pre-service teachers considering their cultural
tendencies in order to more effectively enhance the multicultural sensitivity of pre-service teachers.