It’s natural that multiracial students have been on a sharp upward curve in recent years, given that a growing number of Korean men marry foreign wives and more migrant workers settle here to take up jobs. The number of interracial families was tallied at about 250,000 last year.

If preschoolers are included, the number of children from multiracial families reaches nearly 150,000, and this explains why we should give top priority to integrating such children into our society without a hitch.