The ethnic Chinese Korean community, which has the immigration history of more than 150 years, is the 13th largest in population among 55 ethnic minorities in China, and is regarded as the group of the highest educational potential. As the representing ethnic minority not only having the self-governing territory but also well preserving its ethnic culture, and they have played a unique role as a messenger in exchange between the Korean peninsula and China. However, some recently circulated public opinions of which the community may collapse or the ethnic education is in crisis throw them into confusion and raise an issue of the preservation of ethnic culture.
Although Korean and Chinese scholars have been working on measures dealing with losing ethnic culture, we find that a lack of serious consideration and detailed plans for its preservation. Since the ethnic culture establishes the identity and plays as a medium for keeping ethnic life, history and tradition, its existence can decide the fate of an ethnic group.
This study emphasizes the necessity of education for ethnic culture in consideration of Chinese Korean community’s ignorance about it, and discusses its options through the digital storytelling. In addition, we examine how the alternatives can be applied to school, social, and lifelong education as well as the entire Chinese Korean society, and their possibilities.